Blue Revelstoke, BC
Lightning Rod drops 754 vertical feet over 2,152 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 51st steepest of 80 named runs at Revelstoke. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 21°, Lightning Rod gets about 116% of the winter sun that flat ground at Revelstoke does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Revelstoke. Its top sits at 3,330 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter lidar from Natural Resources Canada. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.