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Blazing Sun

Double black Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch16°
Vertical142 ft
Length829 ft
Average pitch10°
FacesSE
Top1,180 ft

Blazing Sun drops 142 vertical feet over 829 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 460 feet below the top. That's steeper than 2% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 113th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces southeast.

How well Blazing Sun holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 10°, Blazing Sun gets about 123% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 89% of the runs we've measured, and the 79th sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 1,180 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.

Blazing Sun profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Blazing Sun elsewhere

Nearby at Mount Bohemia

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.