Black diamond Ski Smithers, BC
Chapman's Challenge drops 1,314 vertical feet over 4,467 feet of skiing. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Chapman's Challenge gets about 86% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Smithers does, December through March. That's sunnier than 54% of the runs we've measured, and the 33rd sunniest named run at Ski Smithers. Its top sits at 5,260 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from Natural Resources Canada lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.