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Typical snowfall
118cm
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
1,865–2,457 m
Across
5.3 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 ↗
Bridger Bowl, in United States, runs from 1,865 m at the base to 2,457 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 5.3 km across, with 64 marked runs and 12 lifts (about 42 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 118 cm of snowfall a season, 2,117th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 318th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (171 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (75 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (30 and 22 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
118cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
75cm
The middle winter of the 12: 113 cm. The best: 171 cm.
World rank
2117
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
318
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
120
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,047 m, 1,519 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.
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
64
Run length
42km
Lifts
12
Vertical
592m
Top 2,457 m · base 1,865 m
Run map
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North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.4 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.1°
Which way the slopes face
North10%
East78%
South11%
West1%
88% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
The most snow falls in February. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 31 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.
30cmDec
22cmJan
35cmFeb
31cmMar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 118 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 75 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 171 cm (2.3 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.