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Brown Bear

Blue Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch13°
Vertical95 ft
Length802 ft
Average pitch7°
FacesSE
Top1,070 ft

Brown Bear drops 95 vertical feet over 802 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 8% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 118th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces southeast.

How well Brown Bear holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 7°, Brown Bear gets about 132% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 63rd sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 1,070 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.

Brown Bear profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Brown Bear 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.