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Top Gun Bowl

Black diamond Sundance, UT

Steepest pitch36°
Vertical362 ft
Length719 ft
Average pitch30°
FacesNE
Top7,391 ft

Top Gun Bowl drops 362 vertical feet over 719 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 90 feet below the top. That's steeper than 87% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 16th steepest of 66 named runs at Sundance. It faces northeast.

How well Top Gun Bowl holds snow

Snow preservationGood

Facing northeast at an average 30°, Top Gun Bowl gets about 68% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sundance does, December through March. That's shadier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th shadiest named run at Sundance. Its top sits at 7,390 feet.

Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Top Gun Bowl profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Top Gun Bowl elsewhere

Nearby at Sundance

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.