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Sunbowl Trail

Blue Seven Springs, PA

Steepest pitch20°
Vertical212 ft
Length850 ft
Average pitch15°
FacesSE
Top2,774 ft

Sunbowl Trail drops 212 vertical feet over 850 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 510 feet below the top. That's steeper than 42% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 27th steepest of 47 named runs at Seven Springs. It faces southeast.

How well Sunbowl Trail holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 15°, Sunbowl Trail gets about 119% of the winter sun that flat ground at Seven Springs does, December through March. That's sunnier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Seven Springs. Its top sits at 2,770 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.

Sunbowl Trail profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sunbowl Trail elsewhere

Nearby at Seven Springs

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.