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  1. granite

    Best places in the East to ski on the busiest weekends and holidays to avoid crowds

    In NH Wildcat and Cannon. Mount Ellen (Sugarbush North) and Burke Mountain in VT.
  2. granite

    What is the best green run in the East?

    Don't think this has ever been discussed, best green run in the East? Great Eastern-Killington Toll Roads at Stowe and Okemo Lollapalooza-Sunday River
  3. granite

    If you could be skiing anywhere in the world today, where would you ski.

    For me-I think Zermatt, Switzerland. One of the best ski trips I ever had. Will never forget Riding lifts up by the Matterhorn and then skiing down into Cervinia, Italy for lunch.
  4. granite

    No snow making at Vail Resort ski resorts

    I have skied MT Sunapee three times in the last week. I have not seen any attempt at all to make snow. Every single slope groomed flat to a hard compressed surface of machine groomed boredom. The same at Okemo the few times I've been there recently. I could not find a single run that was...
  5. granite

    You know you're a ski bum when

    you spend about ten minutes watching the lift spin and the snow cat groom Superstar on the Superstar live cam at Killington.
  6. granite

    Except for Killington-very weak effort to get open

    I've been checking the Wildcat website snow report and live web daily. It seems they are not making an all out snowmaking assault to open, you can hardly see any snow making going on. They are very slow to update their web site too. Over at Cannon, the last to open and the first to close...
  7. granite

    Cannon Mountain, last to open and first to close.

    My yearly complaint about Cannon Mountain. Last to open and first to close. They could be the KING of early and late season skiing on Profile if they wanted to. They could stay open until July if they made 1/2 as much snow on Profile as Killington does on Superstar. For access, they run the...
  8. granite

    Throwing Bud Light cans onto ski slopes from the ski lift

    I went to Mount Snow last March a couple of days after a 40 inch snow storm. At 9;15 am, some filthy, dirty, moron, p.o.s. drunk & dumb Bud Light drinker was throwing empty Bud Light Cans onto the Lift Line from the Chair Lift. I saw at least six cans throughout the day, including one below the...
  9. granite

    Cannon Mountain, 01-10-2019

    I skied from 9am to 1pm. The Peabody Express and Cannonball Express did not open until 12 noon. Started top to bottom at Mittersill-Baron's Run under the snow guns which were running wet. However, skier's right was quite nice with soft snow, tracked up powder and a few moguls here and there...
  10. granite

    Mount Sunapee, 11-25 and 11-26

    I finally made it out this weekend for day one and two. I used my Max Pass to ski at Mount Sunapee both days, an easy 55 mile drive from home. Only eight skiers on Saturday and seven on Sunday made it to first chair. The place was surprisingly empty both days, maybe 300 on Saturday and 200 on...
  11. granite

    Cannon Mountain-January 21, 2017

    Cannon Mountain-January 21, 2017 There was an invisible mist all day long at Cannon that left tiny drops of water on my goggles every run. This didn’t keep me from skiing first tram to last chair on soft snow from edge to edge on every trail, even in the places that are almost always...
  12. granite

    Sunday River, Saturday-January 07, 2017

    Sunday River, Saturday 01-07-17. With a ton of new snow reported in the past week, I headed to Sunday River for a day trip on Saturday. I left at 4:30 am and arrived at the mountain in about 2 hours and 45 minutes. My goal was to ski first chair to last chair and a lot vertical. I obtained...
  13. granite

    Cannon Mountain, Saturday 12-24-16

    I was able to ski for 4 hours on Saturday. I took two warm up runs off the quad and then made my way over to the new Valar T-bar on the Taft Training Slope. It opened for the first time a few minutes past 9 am. There were about a dozen of us there to make lap after lap for the first hour...
  14. granite

    Cannon Mountain, Sunday 12-11-16

    Paulie's Folly was buried with snowmaking, huge whale backs, soft moguls, and man made powder. The line between the guns on skiers left and the whalebacks is what it's all about. The new HDK guns were on and pointed high into the windless sky. The man made fluff was falling straight down...
  15. granite

    Cannon Mountain, Saturday 12-03-16.

    A heavy snow squall greeted my Saturday morning arrival in the wintry Franconia Notch. A lift ticket was purchased with four nonperishable food items combined with $19.50. By the time I got to first chair at 8:30 am about an inch of fresh snow had fallen. There was light snow on and off all...
  16. granite

    New ske area for NH

    Another big mountain choice for southern NH: http://www.unionleader.com/Business/Ski-slope-proposed-for-Nashua-technology-park-12012016
  17. granite

    Stowe, 03-12-16 three word report

    Liftline-National-Phenomenal!
  18. granite

    Stowe advice

    I'm off to Stowe this weekend, haven't been there is a long time. Any suggestions on restaurants and après ski?
  19. granite

    Cannon Mountain, 03-05-16

    On interstate highways almost the entire way, it took me 1 hour and 21 minutes to drive the 97.4 miles from my home to the Cannon Mountain parking lot at the Peabody Base Lodge. This is an average speed of about 73 mph and is just one of the reasons I love Cannon so much. The temperature was 9...
  20. granite

    Le Massif de Charlevoix 02-11-16

    Last Thursday I took my wife to Quebec for Valentine’s Day. The first stop was the spectacular Basilica Sainte Anne de Beaupre and we then spent the night at Auberge La Muse in Baie-Saint-Paul. The next day it was a 25 minute, 21 mile drive to the very top of Le Massif de Charlevoix where the...
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