Insider Info on Mt Bohemia

I personally have not been yet, but I have been itching to get there. They get around 270-300 inches of snow a year. They have 2 lifts, which one will be broken until Jan 7th or so. No groomed trails, no restaurants or anything. Its a pretty local place and it sounds like it is pretty rad. Everything is basically "backcountry" for Michigan's sake. You can stay in the cabins or yurts for pretty damn cheap.

Yeah that pretty sums up what I have heard. We were planning on taking the day drive to the UP next weekend, but their website says they are closed until after christmas. New plan is for a early spring trip when the base is thicker. Thanks for the insight (+K)

yeah i wouldnt go till late january. The best time i hear is in february though.

Black and doubles no groomer two chair lifts and one cat for a new part that is supposed to be open this year. one lift is down till feb which could make some runs interesting.On a pow day it's epic. Steep glades and cliffs here and there. If it has been warm then cold before u go, just don't go. It's sketchy as hell on icey tight gladed doubles

It's either the best day of your life or absolute worst depending on weather.

exactly

Couldn't of said it better myself. I went to school up there and had a season pass for 4 years. I'd go maybe 4-5 days a year right after or during decent dumps. If you can find a time to come up right after a storm its definitely worth it.

Agree with everything said already...but if u go after a storm you will not regret it! Very rugged and steep terrain for the Midwest. No park but plenty of backcountry hucks and jibs once the base is built up. Monitor the weather there and try and get there after a decent snow

I was at Bohemia last weekend and we had a great time, not very much fresh snow and that made some areas a bit sketchy but there is a pretty decent base in most areas so you wont destroy your skis. Lots of little natural jibs. I would say make the trip.

Weird, I was up on Saturday and we had about 6" of fresh. We were able to drop lines in Haunted Valley and Outer Limits that we haven't been able to hit for a few years.
About 80% of the things we were hitting we had to hike to though.
Ice Falls had good coverage, Extreme Backcountry was awesome too.

i miss bohemia, especially when the lake effect snow machine turns on

I was up there on the 9th, two weekends ago, my bad. Your pictures look great. I was on my bacons too.

I live in Minneapolis. I was there last March. No park of course since it's all ungroomed. They have stuff that makes Jackson Hole's double blacks look like the bunny hill. If you've never been out west, don't go. If you've been out west, enjoy the double blacks, are good at the double blacks, and can ski off-piste/double blacks all day without getting tired, definitely go. They get lake effect snow, right on Lac La Belle, and their bumps are very unique, softer than the bumps out west, so you can really charge through them at full speed, jump off them, etc, and have a lot more freedom in them to ski them how you want because the soft snow is more playful and forgiving. There's small cliffs to jump, awesome chutes, and in the 'Extreme Backcountry' there's small stretches between rocks a few meters wide so steep they require jump turns (in some conditions) and are [b]way[/b] steeper than double blacks out west.

I wouldn't go that far. I've always considered it to be the Jackson Hole of the East. If you like skiing all day not on groomers its better than 90% of resorts out west though