Blue Pine Mountain, MI
Black Bear Way drops 99 vertical feet over 925 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 11° about 640 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 25th steepest of 33 named runs at Pine Mountain. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 6°, Black Bear Way gets about 78% of the winter sun that flat ground at Pine Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 58% of the runs we've measured, and the 17th shadiest named run at Pine Mountain. Its top sits at 1,490 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.