🇺🇸 United States

Bittersweet

10 / 100 Powder Score

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Bittersweet is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 263 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.0 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 17 marked runs and 10 lifts, totalling about 5.1 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 75 cm of snowfall a season, 2518th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 1 other ski area lies within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h

0cm

Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

0cm

Next 72h

0cm

Temperature

13.5℃

Max wind

10.7km/h

Elevation

263m

Area

1.0km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 0/25

Snow quality 0/20

Wind 8/10

Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
☀️ 26 Sept	4.2 / 20.9	10.2
☁️ 27 Sept	6.3 / 21.9	10.7
☁️ 28 Sept	8.7 / 23.2	16.8
☁️ 29 Sept	11.5 / 24.2	11.6
🌧️ 30 Sept	15.2 / 22.5	19.3
🌧️ 1 Oct	15.7 / 18.7	19.2
🌦️ 2 Oct	10.2 / 17.9	15.2

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

94m

Top 309 m · base 215 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.6 km

Steepest pitch16°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs8.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 56%

East 43%

South 1%

West 0%

99% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 1

Easy 4

Intermediate 7

Advanced 3

Lift types

Chairlift6
Magic carpet3
Rope tow1

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.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall

75 cm

per season

Range over three winters

26 cm

59–85 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.

World rank

2518

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

408

of 541 in United States

Elevation rank

454

Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 263 m, 271 m below the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 37% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 11 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

17cm

Dec

30cm

Jan

21cm

Feb

11cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters