Double black Lutsen Mountains, MN
Bear Claw drops 92 vertical feet over 464 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 440 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 24th steepest of 87 named runs at Lutsen Mountains. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Bear Claw gets about 110% of the winter sun that flat ground at Lutsen Mountains does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 66th sunniest named run at Lutsen Mountains. Its top sits at 1,260 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.