riverc0il
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this past week, cannon had stuck with the same five trails they opened with while blowing snow everywhere on the lower mountain. today, they opened up on 21 trails with all of the front face open (at least for the first hour). an amazing amount of terrain, especially considering their status last year at this time. <BR> <BR>front face... one word: powder. avalanche, zoomer, zoomer lift, and rocket were all open with about 4-6 inches of powder. they quickly closed avalanche (snow was blowing on avalanche), the banshee slopes, and paulie's lift line. paulie's itself was torn to shreds by noon time with lots of sticks and stones showing. still skiable though. gary's was half groomed, half not. groomed side was kinda choppy in places. <BR> <BR>off the HSQ, lots of fun to be had on some really fast snow. big/easy link never got too scraped as per usual, mid/lower ravine and mid/lower gremlin held excellent carving snow. carve carve carve speed speed speed! everything off the quad was fun. franconia ski team was cranking up their training off the quad. parkway was natural snow with occasional small bumps, fun fun! <BR> <BR>mid/lower cannon to toss-up held up okay. half way through the day snowmaking was moved from rocket to mid cannon. <BR> <BR>word was that the small trail that links the top of rocket to the top of gary's is the so called 'new trail' Mickey's Margin. this trail was natural snow with small soft bumps. <BR> <BR>excellent afternoon of skiing. skies mostly blue and views were fantastic. folks, this year is pay back for the last one. cannon wasn't this good till february last year. <BR> <BR>other notes: mid/lower hard were closed but had lots of tracks and no bare spots as seen from the lift. upper cannon (closed) had tracks and looked like excellent cover as seen from the quad and big link. look for the summit to open soon i'd guess, probably before xmas the way things are going. paulie's extension looked poachable, but i passed. pics link to follow shortly.