Blue Ski Smithers, BC
Ptarmigan drops 1,429 vertical feet over 5,597 feet of skiing. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 15°, Ptarmigan gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Smithers does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th sunniest named run at Ski Smithers. Its top sits at 5,260 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 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.