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Cake Walk at Telluride Ski Area

Intermediate · 1447 m long with 118 m of vertical, averaging 5° and 13° at its steepest, facing W.

13°steepest 50 m
5°average pitch
1447 mlength
118 mvertical
3183 mtop elevation
Wfaces

Snow and sun

Cake Walk is west-facing: afternoon sun, softens late and can crust as it refreezes.

How to get to Cake Walk

Lifts that reach the top: Village Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Polar Queen Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Plunge Lift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Apex Lift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Gold Hill Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Revelation Lift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 10 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Chondola
  2. Ski Meadows (easy)
  3. Ski Lower Boomerang (easy)
  4. Ride Village Express
  5. Ski Boomerang (intermediate)
  6. Ski Cake Walk (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Prospect Creek to Lift 5 Hike Back, Sheridan Headwall, Boomerang. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Polar Queen Express (1 min), Comp Hill (3 min), unnamed funicular (3 min).

See Cake Walk on the 3D mapAll runs at Telluride Ski Area
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.