Black diamond Silver Star, BC
Northern Lights drops 470 vertical feet over 1,012 feet of skiing. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 28°, Northern Lights gets about 117% of the winter sun that flat ground at Silver Star does, December through March. That's sunnier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 66th sunniest named run at Silver Star. Its top sits at 4,820 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 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.