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Sun Valley - Bald Mountain

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Sun Valley - Bald Mountain is a ski area in United States. The terrain spans roughly 2375–2375 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.4 km². Within 2.3 km of the centre, the map shows 159 marked runs and 12 lifts, totalling about 97 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 190 cm of snowfall a season, 1171st (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 official live camera is linked below. 6 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
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Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Next 72h
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Temperature
8.2℃
Max wind
21.5km/h
Elevation (est.)
2375–2375m
Area
6.4km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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 ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 1.7 / 11 18.2
☁️ 27 Sept 0 4.8 / 14.8 21.5
☁️ 28 Sept 0 6.1 / 15.3 14.8
☁️ 29 Sept 0 3.5 / 17.9 11.5
☀️ 30 Sept 0 6.2 / 19 13.7
☀️ 1 Oct 0 6.3 / 19.9 12.3
☁️ 2 Oct 0 4.9 / 19.6 22

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
142
Run length
79km
Lifts
12
Vertical
1,025m
Top 2,780 m · base 1,756 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map3.1 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs15.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 47%
East 40%
South 6%
West 6%

87% 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 53
Intermediate 38
Advanced 49
Other 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift10
  • Gondola1
  • Magic carpet1

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.

Live Cameras

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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
190 cm
per season
Range over three winters
56 cm
154–210 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.
World rank
1171
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
92
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
94
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,375 m, 1,841 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Sun Valley - Dollar Mountain4.5 km167 cm1371
Rotarun Ski Area19 km133 cm1772
Soldier Mountain Ski Area41 km230 cm872

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 45 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

57cm
Dec
41cm
Jan
52cm
Feb
45cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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