Blue Silver Star, BC
Gopher Glades drops 327 vertical feet over 1,700 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 1,430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 34th steepest of 56 named runs at Silver Star. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 11°, Gopher Glades gets about 102% of the winter sun that flat ground at Silver Star does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 86th sunniest named run at Silver Star. Its top sits at 5,930 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.