Bear Mountain
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Mountain
How big it is and what the skiing is like, each figure with its U.S. rank.
Lifts: the count the resort advertises; resorts differ on whether surface lifts and carpets are in it.
Terrain · the resort’s own difficulty mix
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- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced + expert
Bear Mountain publishes three levels, so its top share counts advanced and expert terrain together. · · .
Snow and weather
The National Weather Service forecast for the summit and the base. Live: each figure gives its source and time.
Webcams
Bear Mountain shows its webcams on its own site
Its cameras play only on its own page.
Trail map
Season not stated · artist not stated
Seen as a trail map shows a mountain: from the base looking uphill, the ground tilted up (heights ×1.5); the arrow points north and the scale holds across the page. Runs and lifts as OpenStreetMap's contributors have mapped them, on the ground from USGS elevation data, with a stronger contour every 200 ft. The key counts the lines OpenStreetMap draws, not the resort's runs (its own list is on the run map).
Runs
Every run Bear Mountain lists, on its trail map and in a list side by side, to tick off as you ski them.
- Skied itRegular
- Foil14 runs
- Holo27 runs
Getting there
Ontario International (ONT) 1 h 23 min
Photos
Photographs of the ski area we may republish, each credited to its photographer. Open one to see it whole.
Passes
The multi-resort passes Bear Mountain is on, and what each gives here.
Ikon Pass
Unlimited26/27 Ikon Pass: unlimited; Ikon Base Pass: unlimited. (roster entry "Big Bear Mountain Resort" covers Bear Mountain, Snow Summit)
Rankings
Where Bear Mountain stands among the U.S. resorts with each figure, and within California.
- Summit elevation#69 U.S., top 100of 342#7 of 23 in California
- Highest lift-served elevation#70 U.S., top 100of 471#6 of 25 in California
- Base elevation#62 U.S., top 100of 317#6 of 23 in California
- Advertised vertical drop#105 U.S., outside the top 100of 390#13 of 24 in California
- Lift-served vertical#89 U.S., top 100of 305#11 of 21 in California
- Skiable acres#180 U.S., outside the top 100of 319#21 of 23 in California
- Named trails#202 U.S., outside the top 100of 352#19 of 24 in California
- Longest run#88 U.S., top 100of 181#13 of 18 in California
- Advanced + expert terrain#116 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#13 of 21 in California
- Beginner runs#118 U.S., outside the top 100of 209#14 of 21 in California
- Total lifts#152 U.S., outside the top 100of 480#16 of 27 in California
- Uphill capacity#29 U.S., top 50of 81#6 of 8 in California
- Average annual snowfall#191 U.S., outside the top 100of 253#19 of 20 in California
- Airport drive#217 U.S., outside the top 100of 506#17 of 29 in California
- Big airport drive#178 U.S., outside the top 100of 505#17 of 29 in California
- Closest airport drive#270 U.S., outside the top 100of 507#12 of 29 in California
Sources
Every figure on this page in one list, and the pages behind each.