Cannon, NH 12-30-05

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salida

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Quick report...

Slush underneath and 5 inches of fresh at the bottom.... Ice under 7inches of windbuff at the top...


Pretty good conditions and not very crowded for a holiday week. Under the peabody express, where it ledges out and goes into a natural area had some sick snow, there is a new snow bridge to get into it, really quite awesome, I think I may have run the run 8 times by myself before anyone else figured out how to get in there. Run of the day was Taft to middle hard, suprisingly not a rock was to be found, the snow was soft, and protected from the wind. It really was quite awesome.

Profile was legitmate sheer ice, not like that kind most people look at and say is ice, I'm talking blue un-edgeable ice. It was open too, and shouldn't have been...

Good day with pretty good snow right after a rain storm. I'll be at pico tomorrow.

-Porter

PS the new deck at the tram building is really wicked super slippery... And it hurts when you fall
 
Thanks for the report! We were very apprehensive Thursday night when it was raining. Friday morning brought some needed relief, when we woke up to find it had changed over to snow at the end of the rain storm.

Fortunately for you, you got the best possible conditions Friday.

Saturday, 12/31 update:
Early Saturday morning was still good, but every open trail quickly got skied off by the holiday traffic. By mid-day, it was hard to get back to the Tram, picking your way down Paulies or Avalanche (which do not have the benefit of any man-made base yet).

The trails with snowmaking to date have full wall-to-wall cover, but it was a skating rink getting down trails like Middle Ravine late in the afternoon. All the man-made trails that got rained on Thursday night have turned to concrete or glass, and what is left of the 5"-6" is now mostly dust-on-crust. The natural cover trails had a 3"-4" layer of crunchy snow for a base under what was left of Friday's 5"-6" powder; but by late morning and afternoon, they were skied down to the grass in many places in between.

Mittersill was thin and brushy before we die-hards got our first tracks. As I told one Dad hiking up the saddle with his kids in tow, I would not recommend taking the kids (or some of our friends) over there until we get some more snow. I had a near-rivercoil-experience when my right forearm was unexpectedly introduced to a large tree, after I caught a tip in the thin cover. Be very cautious if you venture out-of-bounds...

Happy New Year to all the FTO faithful.
 
lftgly, glad you were okay! though your report seems to indicate that i am not missing much :) but i am still not skiing so that is a small consolation! ;) on the bright side, the saddle wasn't seriously skiable last year until february iirc. i did make one fool hardy attempt in january that resulted mostly of side sliping and desperation turns, heh! so being able to ski over there in december is always a treat regardless of conditions. though it is really amazing the folks heading over there now that think it is not an OB experience even though it is well known. happy new year indeed!
 
ugh... that doesn't sound like too much fun... much like last year, december was so promising, but it seems like it's all for naught at this point in the season. sounds like it's deteriorated since I was there on 12/28.

Does anyone know what they got up there last night? Here in Portsmouth, we got 3-4" (more than I'd seen forecast). Here's hoping they did better up noath!

Anyway, happy new year, all!! Go Pats!
 
oh man, troutbum, i wouldn't compare this december to last december! this year's early season has been far superior to last year. i can't imagine it getting much better than this year sans the NCP and thaw of the last week of december.
 
Yeah holy hell, its no where near as bad as last year. I've had so much pow this year I cannot be complaining. From October 27-28 at Cannon, to Thanksgiving knee deep chowda, to Waist deep snow in Quebec, and then a mediocre cannon this weekend. It was still way better than anything this early last year. Conditions are looking up again!

I was in vermont at Pico yesterday, and the coverage was superb (albeit bulletproof)... Most places just need a good foot of any kind of snow and it will do wonders, jumping most areas to 100 percent I would imagine.

As for Cannon, it's not often Mitt is skiable this early anyways!

-Porter
 
OK.. No Mas! I made some great turns in early December last year w/ some of those early storms, and had a great day.. my schedule hasn't allowed as many early season trips this year...

i thought Mitt was fun on 12/28. A ton of work getting through the heavy stuff, but the coverage was pretty similar to parts of the hardscrabbles... at least 7-10 tracks into the Tuckerbrook slot, etc.. etc...

Anyway, just bantering. Anyone going up to Cannon tomorrow?? I got one PM, and I'm mulling my options...
 
Wont be at cannon tomorrow, but I'll be up at Sunday River for the next week, might try to make a trip up to Saddleback from there, see how the snow flies... Any takers
 
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