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Dry Bowl

Black diamond Snowbasin, UT

Steepest pitch36°
Vertical312 ft
Length1,028 ft
Average pitch18°
FacesSE
Top8,760 ft

Dry Bowl drops 312 vertical feet over 1,028 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 820 feet below the top. That's steeper than 89% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 29th steepest of 127 named runs at Snowbasin. It faces southeast.

How well Dry Bowl holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 18°, Dry Bowl gets about 122% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbasin does, December through March. That's sunnier than 88% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Snowbasin. Its top sits at 8,760 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.

Dry Bowl profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Dry Bowl elsewhere

Nearby at Snowbasin

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.