Greg Beers <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>The infamous death cookie is that chunk of hard snow and ice the groomers
>make after a period of rain, thaw, and then re-freeze.

Naw, them's death _crumbs_! :-)  The death cookies I've always heard of/
eaten are the chunklets of refrozen corn & crud that get rained down on
you by some skier/climber above you while you're climbing or trying to
figure out how to get down some desperately steep backcountry run. Anything
that a groomer ran over wouldn't qualify. Their distinquishing characteristic
is that they're big and hard enough to hurt, and they won't stop on anything
steeper than 35 degrees no matter how soft the rest of the surface is. They
just keep going & going & going...

dana

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