Double black Sun Valley, ID
Three Bears drops 501 vertical feet over 1,007 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 260 feet below the top. That's steeper than 53% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 2nd steepest of 99 named runs at Sun Valley. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 30°, Three Bears gets about 125% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sun Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th sunniest named run at Sun Valley. Its top sits at 7,450 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.
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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.