Black diamond Dodge Ridge, CA
Sun Bowl drops 419 vertical feet over 1,528 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 910 feet below the top. That's steeper than 15% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 24th steepest of 53 named runs at Dodge Ridge. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 16°, Sun Bowl gets about 130% of the winter sun that flat ground at Dodge Ridge does, December through March. That's sunnier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Dodge Ridge. Its top sits at 7,400 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.
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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.