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Cookies

Double black Snowmass, CO

Steepest pitch38°
Vertical524 ft
Length1,554 ft
Average pitch20°
FacesNE
Top11,056 ft

Cookies drops 524 vertical feet over 1,554 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 900 feet below the top. That's steeper than 58% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 25th steepest of 126 named runs at Snowmass. It faces northeast.

How well Cookies holds snow

Snow preservationExcellent

Facing northeast at an average 20°, Cookies gets about 58% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowmass does, December through March. That's shadier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th shadiest named run at Snowmass. Its top sits at 11,060 feet.

Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Cookies profile

under 25°25–35°35–45°45°+ Hover to follow the line on the map.

Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Cookies elsewhere

Nearby at Snowmass

Measured by ZRankings from USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.