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Rumbling Bear

Black diamond Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch21°
Vertical162 ft
Length829 ft
Average pitch11°
FacesE
Top1,451 ft

Rumbling Bear drops 162 vertical feet over 829 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 720 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 82nd steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces east.

How well Rumbling Bear holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 11°, Rumbling Bear gets about 109% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 100th sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 1,450 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.

Rumbling Bear profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Rumbling 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.