Double black (off-piste) Silver Star, BC
Snake Pit drops 285 vertical feet over 1,072 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 570 feet below the top. That's steeper than 13% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 21st steepest of 56 named runs at Silver Star. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 16°, Snake Pit gets about 137% of the winter sun that flat ground at Silver Star does, December through March. That's sunnier than 95% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th sunniest named run at Silver Star. Its top sits at 5,830 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.