Canada

Bear Mountain Ski Hill

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall

77cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Elevation: 777–901 m
Across: 0.8 km

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗

Bear Mountain Ski Hill, in Canada, runs from 777 m at the base to 901 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across, with 13 marked runs and 1 lift (about 4.5 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 77 cm of snowfall a season, 2,614th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 156th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (156 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2023/24 (43 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (21 and 19 cm on average).

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall

77cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

43cm

The middle winter of the 12: 78 cm. The best: 156 cm.

World rank

2614

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

156

of 171 in Canada

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 825 m, 288 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Bear Mountain Nordic Ski Trails	6.0 km	78 cm	2611

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs

Run length

4.5km

Lifts

Vertical

124m

Top 901 m · base 777 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.7 km

Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs10.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 36%

East 0%

South 0%

West 64%

Only 36% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (64%).

By difficulty

Easy 5 · 1.9 km

Intermediate 5 · 1.9 km

Advanced 3 · 0.8 km

Lift types

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See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in December. March brings 95% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Canada (79%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 18 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.

21cm

Dec

19cm

Jan

19cm

Feb

18cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 77 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2023/24 with 43 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 156 cm (3.6 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada the leanest winter was 2014/15; here it was a different one.