Double black Mount Bohemia, MI
Papa Bear drops 140 vertical feet over 413 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 300 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 77th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 20°, Papa Bear gets about 155% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 99% of the runs we've measured, and the 17th 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.
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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.