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Grizzly Bear

Double black Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch29°
Vertical334 ft
Length1,278 ft
Average pitch15°
FacesSE
Top1,365 ft

Grizzly Bear drops 334 vertical feet over 1,278 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 1,080 feet below the top. That's steeper than 21% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 38th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces southeast.

How well Grizzly Bear holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 15°, Grizzly Bear gets about 139% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 96% of the runs we've measured, and the 47th sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 1,370 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.

Grizzly Bear profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Grizzly 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.