NHpowderhound
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Posted: 16 Dec 2005, 7:14 PM Post subject: Cannon 12/16, Bretton Woods 12/16, Attitash 12/16
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Road trip!
Holy crap,what a day!
Cannon:
The drive up through Franconia Notch was amazing! The wind actually blew the back of my truck loose from the road and almost spun me out! I made it to the Peabody lot and was a bit dissapointed that there wasn't a whole lot of fresh snow and it looked like it was winding down with actual breaks in the clouds. I booted up at the truck and headed for the Peabody Express which I couldnt belive was running.A VERY windy ride up. At one point I was actually nervous the wind would rip my Fats off my feet it was that windy :shock: ! Extremely gusty! I was surprised how warm it was considering the wind. I reasoned that the Zoomer chair would offer a bit more protestion so I headed downhill. Conditions were mostly a mix of dense POW, PPWD & windscoured. Not bad but not great. Zoomer was pretty good. However the ride up the Zoomer chair was still scary. This time the wind hit you in the back and would push the chair up so it would feel like it may tip backwards and spill it's occupants :shock: . I know it wouldnt but that's the sensation I got. I took a couple more runs down Zoomer when it started to sleet and r@!n pretty hard. At that point I made the choice to make the drive to...
Bretton Woods:
The drive up Rt.3 was just as if not more of a whiteknuckle ride than Franc's Notch :shock: ! Trees and limbs were scattered all over the road and the r@!n had turned back into snow. Whiteout conditions were pretty common as the wind would create a ground blizzard.
I made it to Bretton Woods which boasts "Wind is not a factor at Bretton Woods! Wind has affected lift operation only 4 out of 3969 days." Well tomorow I better see that figure changed to "5 out of 3970 days". Was pretty dissapointed to see that Cannon would be spinning those two lifts and BW couldnt spin thiers. I couldnt really blame them as i stood in the baselodge with the 10 other patrons there that day and watched the wind dial on the wall gust from 40mph to 70mph :shock: ! So I asked myself,"NHPH, do you think it's a good idea to skin alone to the top of Bretton Woods in 70mph winds to ski untracked powder? Of course it is!"
I skinned up to the West Bowl area taking a very liesurely pace up some beginner trails and saw only one ski patroller putting up rope. He bareley gave me a look. Cool! That must mean he wont see me duck the rope into Glade West 8) !
Cover was deep but the super dense quality of the almost knee deep powder I found made for VERY slow going. I pretty much had to straightline the whole damn run,polling downhill for much of it too. Oh well it was still a nice tour.
By the time I got back to the base area the wind had dramattically died down yet the lifts werent spinning . I went inside and observed 10mph winds with gust to 25mph. I looked around and I was the only patron around. It was obvious they werent going to open the hill for just me so off I went to ...
Attitash
Free ski day at Attitash today ! How could I drive by a free day at Attitash with it snowing out! I pulled into the lot around 2:30 and got to the lift about 2:50. It looked like most people were packing it in for the day! Bye bye! I took three big GS runs and called it a day.
Sorry, no pics this trip.
I'll be sore tomorrow.
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*))NHPH
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Road trip!
Holy crap,what a day!
Cannon:
The drive up through Franconia Notch was amazing! The wind actually blew the back of my truck loose from the road and almost spun me out! I made it to the Peabody lot and was a bit dissapointed that there wasn't a whole lot of fresh snow and it looked like it was winding down with actual breaks in the clouds. I booted up at the truck and headed for the Peabody Express which I couldnt belive was running.A VERY windy ride up. At one point I was actually nervous the wind would rip my Fats off my feet it was that windy :shock: ! Extremely gusty! I was surprised how warm it was considering the wind. I reasoned that the Zoomer chair would offer a bit more protestion so I headed downhill. Conditions were mostly a mix of dense POW, PPWD & windscoured. Not bad but not great. Zoomer was pretty good. However the ride up the Zoomer chair was still scary. This time the wind hit you in the back and would push the chair up so it would feel like it may tip backwards and spill it's occupants :shock: . I know it wouldnt but that's the sensation I got. I took a couple more runs down Zoomer when it started to sleet and r@!n pretty hard. At that point I made the choice to make the drive to...
Bretton Woods:
The drive up Rt.3 was just as if not more of a whiteknuckle ride than Franc's Notch :shock: ! Trees and limbs were scattered all over the road and the r@!n had turned back into snow. Whiteout conditions were pretty common as the wind would create a ground blizzard.
I made it to Bretton Woods which boasts "Wind is not a factor at Bretton Woods! Wind has affected lift operation only 4 out of 3969 days." Well tomorow I better see that figure changed to "5 out of 3970 days". Was pretty dissapointed to see that Cannon would be spinning those two lifts and BW couldnt spin thiers. I couldnt really blame them as i stood in the baselodge with the 10 other patrons there that day and watched the wind dial on the wall gust from 40mph to 70mph :shock: ! So I asked myself,"NHPH, do you think it's a good idea to skin alone to the top of Bretton Woods in 70mph winds to ski untracked powder? Of course it is!"
I skinned up to the West Bowl area taking a very liesurely pace up some beginner trails and saw only one ski patroller putting up rope. He bareley gave me a look. Cool! That must mean he wont see me duck the rope into Glade West 8) !
Cover was deep but the super dense quality of the almost knee deep powder I found made for VERY slow going. I pretty much had to straightline the whole damn run,polling downhill for much of it too. Oh well it was still a nice tour.
By the time I got back to the base area the wind had dramattically died down yet the lifts werent spinning . I went inside and observed 10mph winds with gust to 25mph. I looked around and I was the only patron around. It was obvious they werent going to open the hill for just me so off I went to ...
Attitash
Free ski day at Attitash today
! How could I drive by a free day at Attitash with it snowing out! I pulled into the lot around 2:30 and got to the lift about 2:50. It looked like most people were packing it in for the day! Bye bye! I took three big GS runs and called it a day. Sorry, no pics this trip.
I'll be sore tomorrow.
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*))NHPH
