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Sleeping Bear

Black diamond Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch19°
Vertical109 ft
Length552 ft
Average pitch12°
FacesSE
Top1,406 ft

Sleeping Bear drops 109 vertical feet over 552 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 360 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 99th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces southeast.

How well Sleeping Bear holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 12°, Sleeping Bear gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 76th sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 1,410 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.

Sleeping Bear profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sleeping 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.