Frankontour, <BR>Your picture started me drooling!!! <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/messages/8/2652.jpg" ALT="old brochure pic of Mt Saint-Sauveur from Frankontour"> <BR>That's my kind of trail! Unfortunately, for a large portion of the skiing public, that picture would cause them to run away in fear. The ski areas are depending on more people than just you, me, Joegm etc. The need for higher numbers of paying customers required that areas make their product more appealing - hence the "ballroom" movement of the 80's. Those trails at Saint-Sauveur look like they are central trails and thus are probably highly desireable trails to ski. So, they are gonna get groomed. Cannon's mentatlity is the same. Only the least popular trails don't get groomed every day. Make the most trails accessable to the tail-swishers is their ultimate goal. That's why the front five get groomed so much - and get so icy. I remember seeing a picture of Cannon with all the front trails wall to wall with big bumps - in mid season! Even Profile was bumped! Of course grooming tech was less capable of maintaining those trails back then. But just because you can isn't always a good reason to do something. My thoughts on the trails at Cannon are to create a balance between the really hardcore stuffFrankontour, <BR>Your picture started me drooling!!! That's my kind of trail! Unfortunately, for a large portion of the skiing public, that picture would cause them to run away in fear. The ski areas are depending on more people than just you, me, Joegm etc. The need for higher numbers of paying customers required that areas make their product more appealing - hence the "ballroom" movement of the 80's. Those trails at Saint-Sauveur look like they are central trails and thus are probably highly desireable trails to ski. So, they are gonna get groomed. Cannon's mentatlity is the same. Only the least popular trails don't get groomed every day. Make the most trails accessable to the tail-swishers is their ultimate goal. That's why the front five get groomed so much - and get so icy. I remember seeing a picture of Cannon with all the front trails wall to wall with big bumps - in mid season! Even Profile was bumped! Of course grooming tech was less capable of maintaining those trails back then. But just because you can isn't always a good reason to do something. My thoughts on the trails at Cannon are to create a balance between the really hardcore stuffFrankontour, <BR>Your picture started me drooling!!! That's my kind of trail! Unfortunately, for a large portion of the skiing public, that picture would cause them to run away in fear. The ski areas are depending on more people than just you, me, Joegm etc. The need for higher numbers of paying customers required that areas make their product more appealing - hence the "ballroom" movement of the 80's. Those trails at Saint-Sauveur look like they are central trails and thus are probably highly desireable trails to ski. So, they are gonna get groomed. Cannon's mentatlity is the same. Only the least popular trails don't get groomed every day. Make the most trails accessable to the tail-swishers is their ultimate goal. That's why the front five get groomed so much - and get so icy. I remember seeing a picture of Cannon with all the front trails wall to wall with big bumps - in mid season! Even Profile was bumped! Of course grooming tech was less capable of maintaining those trails back then. But just because you can isn't always a good reason to do something. My thoughts on the trails at Cannon are to create a balance between the really hardcore stuff; Tramline, glades, Avalanche, etc. and the things that are more tame expert trails. The hardcore stuff is what gets the hype and the rep going. But most people can't ski that stuff but still want to ski Cannon to LEARN to. So as Joegm says, we need to have intermediate and low expert levels of the "nasty" (read fun) stuff so people can practice and progress. What do you guys want to see?
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