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Sun Bowl

Blue Snow King, WY

Steepest pitch27°
Vertical734 ft
Length2,649 ft
Average pitch16°
FacesSW
Top7,911 ft

Sun Bowl drops 734 vertical feet over 2,649 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 700 feet below the top. That's steeper than 88% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 18th steepest of 33 named runs at Snow King. It faces southwest.

How well Sun Bowl holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southwest at an average 16°, Sun Bowl gets about 139% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snow King does, December through March. That's sunnier than 96% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Snow King. Its top sits at 7,910 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.

Sun Bowl profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sun Bowl elsewhere

Nearby at Snow King

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.