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Shug'r Bowl

Black diamond Powder Mountain, UT

Steepest pitch41°
Vertical1,269 ft
Length3,271 ft
Average pitch23°
FacesSE
Top9,321 ft

Shug'r Bowl drops 1,269 vertical feet over 3,271 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 41° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 96% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Shug'r Bowl holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 23°, Shug'r Bowl gets about 132% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 9,320 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.

Shug'r Bowl profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Shug'r Bowl elsewhere

Nearby at Powder Mountain

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.