Blue Silver Summit, AB
La Chute drops 288 vertical feet over 2,549 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 780 feet below the top. That's steeper than 42% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 7th steepest of 11 named runs at Silver Summit. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 7°, La Chute gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Silver Summit does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Silver Summit. Its top sits at 4,700 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.