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California · lift-served terrain

Bear Mountain

1,635 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 7,149 ft to a summit of 8,784 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into 4 five-hundred-foot bands.

1,635
ft vertical
7,149
ft base
8,784
ft summit
7
uphill lifts
462
footprint acres

The column

4 bands · base to summit
7,000–7,50086 ac · 15.2° · S522 mm
7,500–8,000211 ac · 19.3° · SSE550 mm
8,000–8,500156 ac · 23.4° · S550 mm
8,500–9,0008 ac · 24.2° · SSW567 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
4
All lifts
7
Lift length
6.3 km
Steepest band
24.2°
Operator
—
Coordinates
34.2208, -116.8600

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
7,000–7,5008615.2more difficultS172522
7,500–8,00021119.3more difficultSSE168550
8,000–8,50015623.4more difficultS179550
8,500–9,000824.2more difficultSSW213567

Slope and aspect are the Horn 3×3 method on a ~13 m DEM. A band's aspect is the direction of the mean unit vector, not the mean of the angles. NDJFM mm is the PRISM 1991–2020 November–March precipitation normal at that height — liquid equivalent, not snow depth.

How this mountain gets scored

the verification station
No SNOTEL within 25 km. SNOTEL is a western network, so this mountain is verified against the NOHRSC snowfall analysis and the nearest COOP and ASOS observations instead — all coarser, and none of them at summit height. That is a real limit on what can be claimed here, and it is stated rather than hidden.

Nearby

Snow Summit 3 km Snow Valley Mountain Resort 16 km Mt. Baldy 69 km Mountain High 78 km Mount Waterman 99 km

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