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Venus

Double black Mount Bohemia, MI

Steepest pitch19°
Vertical47 ft
Length241 ft
Average pitch11°
FacesE
Top1,191 ft

Venus drops 47 vertical feet over 241 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 100th steepest of 125 named runs at Mount Bohemia. It faces east.

How well Venus holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 11°, Venus gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Bohemia does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 104th sunniest named run at Mount Bohemia. Its top sits at 1,190 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.

Venus profile

under 25°25–35°35–45°45°+ Hover to follow the line on the map.

Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Venus 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.