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Dark Forest

Double black (off-piste) Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch29°
Vertical214 ft
Length503 ft
Average pitch25°
FacesS
Top861 ft

Dark Forest drops 214 vertical feet over 503 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 220 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces south.

How well Dark Forest holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 25°, Dark Forest gets about 170% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 100% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 860 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.

Dark Forest profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Dark Forest 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.