Top: the snowy ground texture in Cool, Cool Mountain in Super Mario 64 is blurry and yellowish, not recognizable as anything specific.
Bottom: it turns out that it is actually a stock proto of a blanket from a commercial texture CD, made more blurry and recolored. Interestingly, the original blanket's color would also have fit for the purpose of making snowy ground, but the color was likely introduced to give some visual variety to the environment and to keep all ground in the course from being some shade of light blue.
Source: Render96, Leonard85026417
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