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Needle's Eye at Ski Cooper

Expert · 155 m long with 58 m of vertical, averaging 21° and 27° at its steepest, facing SE.

27°steepest 50 m
21°average pitch
155 mlength
58 mvertical
3467 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

Needle's Eye is south-east-facing: sun from mid-morning, softens early in spring.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Needle's Eye

Lifts that reach the top: Piney Basin Triple Chair (skiing expert terrain to get there); Little Horse (skiing expert terrain to get there); Hoyt's (skiing expert terrain to get there); 10th Mountain (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 4 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Piney Basin Triple Chair
  2. Ski Motherlode (advanced)
  3. Ski Lion's Way (expert)
  4. Ski Lazy Elk Spur (expert)
  5. Ski Needle's Eye (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Low Road, Lion's Way. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Little Horse (2 min).

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Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.