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Kodiak Bear

Double black Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch27°
Vertical187 ft
Length952 ft
Average pitch12°
FacesE
Top1,368 ft

Kodiak Bear drops 187 vertical feet over 952 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 600 feet below the top. That's steeper than 15% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 54th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces east.

How well Kodiak Bear holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 12°, Kodiak Bear gets about 109% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 97th 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.

Kodiak Bear profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Kodiak 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.