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Gollum

Double black Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch13°
Vertical125 ft
Length937 ft
Average pitch8°
FacesS
Top790 ft

Gollum drops 125 vertical feet over 937 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 390 feet below the top. That's steeper than 1% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 121st steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces south.

How well Gollum holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 8°, Gollum gets about 124% 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 78th sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 790 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.

Gollum profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Gollum 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.