Green Ski Smithers, BC
Upper Sidewinder drops 251 vertical feet over 3,132 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 11° about 630 feet below the top. That's steeper than 26% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 16th steepest of 16 named runs at Ski Smithers. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 5°, Upper Sidewinder gets about 144% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Smithers does, December through March. That's sunnier than 97% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Ski Smithers. Its top sits at 4,910 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.