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Squeeze Box

Double black Wolf Creek, CO

Steepest pitch41°
Vertical406 ft
Length1,180 ft
Average pitch21°
FacesE
Top10,935 ft

Squeeze Box drops 406 vertical feet over 1,180 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 41° about 180 feet below the top. That's steeper than 77% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 17th steepest of 131 named runs at Wolf Creek. It faces east.

How well Squeeze Box holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 21°, Squeeze Box gets about 110% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wolf Creek does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Wolf Creek. Its top sits at 10,930 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.

Squeeze Box profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Squeeze Box elsewhere

Nearby at Wolf Creek

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.