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Forbidden Cliffs

Double black (off-piste) Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch30°
Vertical115 ft
Length345 ft
Average pitch21°
FacesSE
Top1,099 ft

Forbidden Cliffs drops 115 vertical feet over 345 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 170 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 28th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces southeast.

How well Forbidden Cliffs holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 21°, Forbidden Cliffs gets about 147% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the 28th sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 1,100 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.

Forbidden Cliffs profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Forbidden Cliffs 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.