riverc0il
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pulled into the upper lot at 8:18AM to see it was almost full :!: thought the super bowl crowds were gonna be ugly, but turned out everyone just showed up early so they could leave early :wink: as crowds were definitely not a problem and had this been a normal snow year with better than 90% of terrain open, what little crowd there was would have been slightly better distributed.
blue bird day with no clouds in the sky, awesome view of the franc ridge with a little haze on the horizon preventing far views towards VT. temp at the summit at 9AM was 40F!!!! only got warmer, got damn what a beautiful day.
best groomer action at cannon i've experienced this season in the AM. took laps on middle cannon, gary's, and rocket and all had really great snow. bumps on skier's right of gary's and rocket still kinda blah but much much better than my last report. over on avalanche, there had been a water leak near the banshee cut off that left much of skier's far right on avalanche frozen ice. bumps skier's right were more like random mounds that were best skied by turning on the backside, kinda fun. nice line on zoomer right under the chair with delightful soft snow.
tram wasn't too packed leading to an interesting summit. upper cannon had delightful snow early in the AM with tramway and upper ravine not so delightful and not softening up at all. profile looked rather scraped from the get go and i decided upper mountain just wasn't where it was at today.
links got shreded per usual, but they were worth the effort to get to lower hardscrabble which had some of the finest snow on the mountain all day :!: not normally a trail i give much props to. bypass was roped even though it looked skiable but not much fun at that. and skier's right on paulie's extension gets my nod for run of the day with awesome soft bumps.
fantastic afternoon on the slopes, but felt kinda trapped on the groomers all day which eventually were scraped pretty badly just past noon time. best i've seen cannon all year regarding the groomed terrain, so i can't complain. crowds were a non-issue with longest line (tram wait aside) being about 4 minutes for the cannonball. the barely noticable trickle of snow leading up the saddle towards mitt was a sad sight indeed and not inviting in the slightest on the first weekend of february :!:
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blue bird day with no clouds in the sky, awesome view of the franc ridge with a little haze on the horizon preventing far views towards VT. temp at the summit at 9AM was 40F!!!! only got warmer, got damn what a beautiful day.
best groomer action at cannon i've experienced this season in the AM. took laps on middle cannon, gary's, and rocket and all had really great snow. bumps on skier's right of gary's and rocket still kinda blah but much much better than my last report. over on avalanche, there had been a water leak near the banshee cut off that left much of skier's far right on avalanche frozen ice. bumps skier's right were more like random mounds that were best skied by turning on the backside, kinda fun. nice line on zoomer right under the chair with delightful soft snow.
tram wasn't too packed leading to an interesting summit. upper cannon had delightful snow early in the AM with tramway and upper ravine not so delightful and not softening up at all. profile looked rather scraped from the get go and i decided upper mountain just wasn't where it was at today.
links got shreded per usual, but they were worth the effort to get to lower hardscrabble which had some of the finest snow on the mountain all day :!: not normally a trail i give much props to. bypass was roped even though it looked skiable but not much fun at that. and skier's right on paulie's extension gets my nod for run of the day with awesome soft bumps.
fantastic afternoon on the slopes, but felt kinda trapped on the groomers all day which eventually were scraped pretty badly just past noon time. best i've seen cannon all year regarding the groomed terrain, so i can't complain. crowds were a non-issue with longest line (tram wait aside) being about 4 minutes for the cannonball. the barely noticable trickle of snow leading up the saddle towards mitt was a sad sight indeed and not inviting in the slightest on the first weekend of february :!:
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