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Cannon Lover's Thread

Smellytele

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  • Patrol will be inspecting Mittersill for a POSSIBLE opening this weekend (please obey the ropes out there, folks!
  • New snow totals from last night: 3-4" base, 6-8" summit bringing us to 2 feet total so far in December
 

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Really, really random question that I've been wondering for a while:

If you were to straight line down Taft, could you make it into Mittersill without hiking?
 

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No, but you can get 1/4 maybe a little more safely and that saves a good part of the hike. If Taft was closed and you went full Tuna with fast conditions I wonder how far you could go?
I've recently wondered why would they cut a racing trail back then with such a long up hill section?
 

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  • Patrol will be inspecting Mittersill for a POSSIBLE opening this weekend (please obey the ropes out there, folks!
  • New snow totals from last night: 3-4" base, 6-8" summit bringing us to 2 feet total so far in December

Nice.


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Really, really random question that I've been wondering for a while:

If you were to straight line down Taft, could you make it into Mittersill without hiking?

The challenge I encountered maintaining speed the few times I've been over the saddle is people bunching up at the entrance or not walking single file.
 

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I always take a check run down Taft first and then wait up high and let it clear out before letting it go.
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Do you recall how far you made it up? I've only tried to see how far I could go a couple of times. Once you get up a little boot tracks don't help and once you start to slow down you slow down fast.
This would be a great contest for the mountain to have. I think they groomed this before and a lot of people didn't like it. But, if they groomed it out and let people tuck half of Taft....probably too dangerous though.
 

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Certainly tucked all of Taft many times heading up and over.As said before,about 1/4 of the way up is about it but you can keep it going a little further skating.
 

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I saw on Facebook earlier that they referred to the "Cannon Cloud".

Please make it stop...


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