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To Bear

Green Brundage, ID

Steepest pitch9°
Vertical67 ft
Length981 ft
Average pitch4°
FacesSE
Top6,476 ft

To Bear drops 67 vertical feet over 981 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 9° about 960 feet below the top. That's steeper than 14% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 73rd steepest of 76 named runs at Brundage. It faces southeast.

How well To Bear holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 4°, To Bear gets about 120% of the winter sun that flat ground at Brundage does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Brundage. Its top sits at 6,480 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.

To Bear profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like To Bear elsewhere

Nearby at Brundage

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.