Most ski apps tell you how much snow fell. PowderRun tells you which run to ski right now. It scores every run 0–100 in real-time based on aspect, elevation, wind, and fresh snowfall. North-facing runs hold powder longer. Gladed runs stay protected. PowderRun knows all of this. 95+ resorts across North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. 10-day forecast, push powder alerts, and a 3D scored map. Free to download.
I built PowderRun because I kept showing up to the wrong run.
You'd check the snow report, see "20cm overnight" and think it was going to be a great day — then spend half the morning hunting for where the good snow actually was. Resort-level data doesn't tell you that the south-facing runs got baked by sun, or that the wind loaded the north-facing ones perfectly.
So I built an algorithm that scores every individual run 0–100 based on aspect, elevation, wind exposure, solar radiation, and fresh snowfall. It knows that north-facing runs hold powder longer. It knows gladed runs are protected from wind. It knows high-elevation runs stay cold longer.
Started as a single HTML file for one resort. Now it covers 95+ resorts worldwide.
Would love feedback from skiers and snowboarders here — what would make this genuinely useful for your mountain?
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How do you handle resorts with limited or weird trail data, do you rely on public GIS maps ?
@manal_essalek1 We will only support mountains which we are confident with in correct trail data