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If you ski in the Midwest, you'd surely know the term "death cookie." A death cookie is a fun little part of skiing that can be pretty painful.

A death cookie is simply a chunk of hard snow made, usually, my snow-making equipment. They can usually be seen early-season, but after a few weeks of natural snow on top of the man-made stuff, death cookies can become incognito.

An undercover death cookie caught me the other day. I was skiing along at Spirit Mountain, enjoying 6" of fresh snow on the side of a run. I know that there are death cookies just beneath the surface, so I took it easy and played it closer to the run; this way any death cookies could of been chewed up by a groomer. Well, one wasn't, and I toed into it, clicked out, and it tossed me on the ground Take a look at the picture below and you'll see what I mean.

If you ski a little off the groomed path, be aware of their existence until later in the season when they are completely covered. Start seeing death cookies.

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