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But Super Bowl Sunday's are "two-fers" because they're typically low-turnout days! And the two-fer deal doesn't make it a crowded day. Yes, you do need "to ski there more to get a better impression." The next time you're looking for a place to eat your brown-bag lunch on a crowded Cannon day...

Porter, You're talking about two different things here: 1) a new base lodge 2) further development of Mittersill real estate On the first topic: Cannon needs a new base lodge. There's already not enough brown-bag seating capacity for the bigger weekends of the year. (And Cannon's big weekends...

Actually, Rivercoil, 50% can be expressed as a fraction. It's 1/2. And 1/2 of 28 is 14 days. Spend 50 or 70 or 100 days at Cannon and then tell me Cannon's small snowmaking budget couldn't use a shot in the arm. -Dave Haller

:D Glad to be included in the plan! -HD

-More man-made snow. Cover the whole trail, from woods to woods, with a deep layer, not just a narrow strip down the middle. Skiable acreage on Zoomer, Avalanche and other trails is cut in half whenever there isn't ample natural snow, because they don't make snow all the way to the trail's...

As many of you New Hampshire skiers know, the state is looking very seriously at the privatization of Cannon Mountain and the topic has ignited lively debate. Here's a letter I wrote that was published in the local paper, The Courier: To the editor, In a recent issue of The Courier, a letter...

Joe, Didn't see this thread until now but I just acknowledged your prophetic pick in your "remember this name for Turin" thread. Good call on Begg-Smith! I figured Bloom wouldn't podium, but I thought Lahtela or Mayer would do something. Kearney was no surprise; she's young and not yet too...

When I start to get worried about little aches and pains and what they might mean for my skiing, I typically bring myself out of worry mode by thinking of Hermann Maier's story. Now I can think of you two as well, and tell myself to shut up and ski. -HDH

CJ, Okay, two things... 1. I don't think Aldigheiri had the talent that Des and Martin had. Bobby A. worked and scraped and clawed his way onto the team and worked and scraped and clawed to stay there and post a few good WC finishes. In comparison, Des and Martin were absolute masters. That...

Okay, so Bode's booze comments have proved the final spark that was needed to launch his pre-Olympic publicity, the magnitude of which (covers of Newsweek, Time, etc) our sport has not seen in more than 20 years. Were the booze comments well-engineered publicity or just Bode mouthing off at the...

OUCH! And you're still skiing hard today. Good for you, Jim. -HDH

CJ, while you're at it, ask Chuck Martin about the influence of Coach Steve Desovich on Begg Smith's skiing. Martin and Desovich were on the U.S. team together in the '80s and both called Killington home. Martin was Mister-casual-and-smooth in even the nastiest bumps. Beautiful skier. Desovich...

...and now he's grabbed a second-place finish, right? Deer Valley? He's still awesome. Don't count him out, either. -HDH

But most of us, most of the time, don't bat an eye at a "Molson Canadian Junior Freestyle Event" or a Budweiser Top Fuel Dragster; we tolerate booze and skiing, or booze and driving, on implicit levels all the time. That's my point here. So how can we get too angry with Bode? He just took the...

I'd have to disagree with you there, Tony. Most eastern areas have plenty enough steepness for even the mushiest of spring days. As for salting... do you know of any salting that occurs outside of race course preparation? I've never heard of it. -HDH