Cannon Mountain, 1-18-07

[salida]

Day 23, and damn was it fun at Cannon today.

Not many people there, but the ones who were, seemed to be very good skiers. It is always fun to be at a mountain where everyone is pretty capable, fun to watch from the lifts. Good snow on tram way, upper cannon, and ravine, all three are great trails. Lower mountain was pretty good too, ran some sweet runs down rocket. All in all the place is looking awesome, they were blowing glaciers on bypass and in the tuckerbrook area... hardly enough snow to go off piste, quite a few show stopping rocks lurking off the man made paths. Starting to classify the days by whether or not there are enough rocks under the snow to rattle the fritschis off... Damn for such a crappy snow season have we been have a real good time. Feeling a little antsy for snow and what we might consider doing if we finally get some fluff to deal with.

Looks like Stowe Saturday...let me know if any of you other guys will be there, lift hold?! I'll be in the monkey suit you see in the pictures below.

Here are some pictures of the shenanigans:

Videos to come

 

[riverc0il]

:lol:

good to know i am not alone in being desperate enough to ski such conditions, lol!

 

[salida]

Videos:

G-man slaying some Conifers

Followed up by some jumping Antics

 

[ono]

is that mittersill? i'm guessing yeah.

how much snow does canon usually get? we were there last december- seems like a good spot for upslope (they had 8" over everyone elses 2-4" that day)

all and all a cool, old school area.

the tramline looks cool, as does the klinsman glade (how often can you actually ski these areas?) whats the backcountry like at canon?

20 questions. sorry.

 

[salida]

is that mittersill? i'm guessing yeah.

Yes it is, but I would not suggest going over there until they get at least 18 more inches of snow.

how much snow does canon usually get? we were there last december- seems like a good spot for upslope (they had 8" over everyone elses 2-4" that day)

Cannon is definitely a good place to get some upslope/notch effect snow. They certainly get more snow than loon/bretton woods/attitash. However, they do not get as much as the Northern Greens (at least not in most storms, they are occasionally the biggest accum in the NE).

the tramline looks cool, as does the klinsman glade (how often can you actually ski these areas?) whats the backcountry like at canon?

Tramline and Kinsman glade have been skiable about 30 days in each of the past two seasons. This season we are going to need probably 36 more inches of snow or cannon to even think of opening these trails...

 

[riverc0il]

salida is being very generous with opening ranges for tramline and kinsman glade. of the ~4 seasons these trails have been on the map, at least one season they did not open at all. i don't recall seeing them open last season either which would make two unless someone recalls other wise? suffice to say, it is a big deal when cannon has enough snow to open either cause it doesn't happen very often.