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cucumber #2

Double black Breckenridge, CO

Steepest pitch37°
Vertical301 ft
Length704 ft
Average pitch26°
FacesE
Top11,666 ft

cucumber #2 drops 301 vertical feet over 704 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 590 feet below the top. That's steeper than 55% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 42nd steepest of 207 named runs at Breckenridge. It faces east.

How well cucumber #2 holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing east at an average 26°, cucumber #2 gets about 112% of the winter sun that flat ground at Breckenridge does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 35th sunniest named run at Breckenridge. Its top sits at 11,670 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

cucumber #2 profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like cucumber #2 elsewhere

Nearby at Breckenridge

Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.