Cannon Lover's Thread

[Smellytele]

Daughter did the real Tuckerbrook this afternoon, said it was excellent but of course you either need to thumb back or stage a car.

Heard DJs was scrapped and lousy. Everything I skied on the upper mountain was excellent. Never seen so many people on the saddle, mountain was relatively busy for a Monday. No feedback on mittersill woods but lift line was fun.

You can cut back into the mittersill village from tuckerbrook no need to thumb or stage a car. Short walk back to the lift.

 

[thebigo]

You can cut back into the mittersill village from tuckerbrook no need to thumb or stage a car. Short walk back to the lift.

The cutoff to mittersill has a different name that I don't remember. The full Tuckerbrook dumps you out on wells.

 

[Zand]

Fun day but they really must've had some heavy traffic yesterday, a lot more hardpack and ice popping up from underneath the remaining chowder than I anticipated.

ROTD was Banshee. I'm not sure if I've ever skied it before for whatever reason. But when I was hoofing it back from Kinsman, I saw two people coming down hooting and hollering and decided I had to check it out. Loaded with tons of powder and no hardpack anywhere. I know its short but it's worth checking out. Repeated many times. Other stuff off Zoomer like Lakeview Glade and Zoomer Liftline really not all that fun, very slick under foot. Actually thought Bypass had better snow than a lot of the nats which is very rare.

Kinsman not really worth it. Top half is good. Bottom half needs more coverage. Even at 9 degrees I was sweating my ass off getting back to Zoomer.

Only skied one Upper glade (Animal) which was great at the top but developed slick spots further down. Unfortunately this super light blower probably wasn't able to meld to the hardpack at all and the traffic yesterday blew it all off. Not to say it sucks, it's still very good. But need a warmer snowstorm with good snow to really improve the base conditions. Snow is very deep though, should be a great spring this year.

Mittersill more of the same. Some pockets of powder, some areas of hardpack and ice. Huge whales on Baron's, had to have been 20 feet high. I like how a good chunk of that area still has no trail signs and while it's not quite the "backcountry" experience it used to be, it still an awesome area to explore.

Good to be back! In a state with mostly mundane mountains, Cannon really sticks its head out above the others. Hopefully will get my second Indy day sometime closer to spring.

 

[Smellytele]

Fun day but they really must've had some heavy traffic yesterday, a lot more hardpack and ice popping up from underneath the remaining chowder than I anticipated.

ROTD was Banshee. I'm not sure if I've ever skied it before for whatever reason. But when I was hoofing it back from Kinsman, I saw two people coming down hooting and hollering and decided I had to check it out. Loaded with tons of powder and no hardpack anywhere. I know its short but it's worth checking out. Repeated many times. Other stuff off Zoomer like Lakeview Glade and Zoomer Liftline really not all that fun, very slick under foot. Actually thought Bypass had better snow than a lot of the nats which is very rare.

Kinsman not really worth it. Top half is good. Bottom half needs more coverage. Even at 9 degrees I was sweating my ass off getting back to Zoomer.

Only skied one Upper glade (Animal) which was great at the top but developed slick spots further down. Unfortunately this super light blower probably wasn't able to meld to the hardpack at all and the traffic yesterday blew it all off. Not to say it sucks, it's still very good. But need a warmer snowstorm with good snow to really improve the base conditions. Snow is very deep though, should be a great spring this year.

Mittersill more of the same. Some pockets of powder, some areas of hardpack and ice. Huge whales on Baron's, had to have been 20 feet high. I like how a good chunk of that area still has no trail signs and while it's not quite the "backcountry" experience it used to be, it still an awesome area to explore.

Good to be back! In a state with mostly mundane mountains, Cannon really sticks its head out above the others. Hopefully will get my second Indy day sometime closer to spring.

Wow sounds like it was worse than before the storm. I was there Wednesday and no ice nor hard pack anywhere.

 

[Zand]

Storms bring traffic. And this one was 100% blower powder so doesn't really stand up to the traffic all that well.

Surprisingly almost no wind out there today so still quite a bit of untracked to be found if you check the far corners...

 

[thebigo]

Zand has high standards. I thought today was spectacular, better than Monday. Texted my buddy one of the better Eastern days in many years.

 

[snoseek]

Today was so fucking good. We took some of dad's ashes up there and spread them where they belong off vista and avie. mitt this morning first thing was magical.

 

[Zand]

Zand has high standards. I thought today was spectacular, better than Monday. Texted my buddy one of the better Eastern days in many years.

I think I spent too much time at Stowe last Jan/Feb with a perfect soft base underneath seemingly daily refreshes

 

[thebigo]

Barons may melt out in July if they keep blowing.