Green Bear Mountain, CA
The Gulch drops 87 vertical feet over 741 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 38% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 23rd steepest of 25 named runs at Bear Mountain. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 7°, The Gulch gets about 84% of the winter sun that flat ground at Bear Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 52% of the runs we've measured, and the 8th sunniest named run at Bear Mountain. Its top sits at 7,610 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 1-meter USGS lidar. 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.