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No Knees

Black diamond Silver Star, BC

Steepest pitch—
Vertical290 ft
Length714 ft
Average pitch24°
FacesE
Top4,232 ft

No Knees drops 290 vertical feet over 714 feet of skiing. It faces east.

How well No Knees holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 24°, No Knees gets about 107% of the winter sun that flat ground at Silver Star does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 78th sunniest named run at Silver Star. Its top sits at 4,230 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.

No Knees profile

under 25°25–35°35–45°45°+ Hover to follow the line on the map.

Where it is on the mountain

Nearby at Silver Star

Measured by ZRankings from 30-meter elevation data from Natural Resources Canada, too coarse to measure steepness. 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.