Blue Big Powderhorn, MI
Back Bowl East drops 75 vertical feet over 623 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 400 feet below the top. That's steeper than 12% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 33rd steepest of 45 named runs at Big Powderhorn. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 7°, Back Bowl East gets about 109% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Powderhorn does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Big Powderhorn. Its top sits at 1,630 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 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.