🇨🇦 Canada

Bear Mountain Ski Hill

10 / 100 Powder Score
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Bear Mountain Ski Hill is a ski area in Canada, at about 825 m. 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).

Below is a link to its official live camera.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0.9cm
Temperature
6.6℃
Max wind
16.1km/h
Elevation
825m
Across
0.8km

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. Snow report on the official site ↗

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 Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 7 Oct 0 6 / 13.4 20.1
🌧️ 8 Oct 0 4.2 / 6.3 13.4
❄️ 9 Oct 0.9 1 / 3.8 27.6
☁️ 10 Oct 0 -2.9 / 1.7 22
☁️ 11 Oct 0 -4.3 / 8.1 17.5
☁️ 12 Oct 0 2.4 / 10.9 23.3
☁️ 13 Oct 0 2.8 / 14.1 19.5

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
13
Run length
4.5km
Lifts
1
Vertical
124m
Top 901 m · base 777 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 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. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 5
Intermediate 5
Advanced 3

Lift types

  • T-bar1

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 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
77 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
43 cm
A typical winter: 78 cm. The best: 156 cm.
World rank
2614
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
156
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
57
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 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
Bear Mountain Nordic Ski Trails6.0 km78 cm2611

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

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 26% of the 171 ski areas in Canada, the leanest winter was the same 2023/24: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

43
156
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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