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Sundance Bowl

Black diamond Turner Mountain, MT

Steepest pitch28°
Vertical813 ft
Length1,978 ft
Average pitch24°
FacesSE
Top5,906 ft

Sundance Bowl drops 813 vertical feet over 1,978 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 1,330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 47% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 11th steepest of 23 named runs at Turner Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Sundance Bowl holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 24°, Sundance Bowl gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Turner Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Turner Mountain. Its top sits at 5,910 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.

Sundance Bowl profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sundance Bowl elsewhere

Nearby at Turner Mountain

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.