Blue Silver Star, BC
Big Dipper drops 1,582 vertical feet over 6,407 feet of skiing. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 14°, Big Dipper gets about 131% of the winter sun that flat ground at Silver Star does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 38th sunniest named run at Silver Star. Its top sits at 6,160 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 Natural Resources Canada lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.