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Bear Trail Glades

Double black Blue Mountain, ON

Steepest pitch20°
Vertical256 ft
Length1,765 ft
Average pitch9°
FacesSE
Top1,404 ft

Bear Trail Glades drops 256 vertical feet over 1,765 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 1,720 feet below the top. That's steeper than 5% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 37th steepest of 55 named runs at Blue Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Bear Trail Glades holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 9°, Bear Trail Glades gets about 121% of the winter sun that flat ground at Blue Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Blue Mountain. Its top sits at 1,400 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.

Bear Trail Glades profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Bear Trail Glades elsewhere

Nearby at Blue Mountain

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.