Cannon Lover's Thread

[ceo]

The whole aspect on the left side of Mittetsill, basically between Wicked Hard and Saddle/Baron's Run should be trails and/or glades.

Looking at OpenSkiMap, that's potentially doable, it's slightly less steep than Kinsman Glade and Tramline. The problem is that roughly half of that area was part of the land swap with the Forest Service that enabled the reopening of Mittersill, and is therefore subject to the prohibition on clearing land above 2500'.

The 1998 expansion plan that included the Peabody Quad and Tuckerbrook also included a chair to the top of the Saddle and a trail basically down the ridgeline to skier's right of Baron's Run, with a glade in between. There's a map here. The same plan also included a trail from Bypass into the top of the Banshee area, which would be insanely steep.

 

[deadheadskier]

Well, that glade already exists

 

[thebigo]

Pony express holds snow because it is off map. A groomer there would be a windblown hellscape more often than anything remotely enjoyable.

 

[thebigo]

I remember that master plan on the wall of the tram base station. I was hiking with my dad, must have been mid 90s? Asked one of the park workers about Kinsman, remember he replied it was the 'dream trail'.

I don't remember a trail above banshee and unfortunately only the mittersill side of the map is readily available on the normal ski map websites. The entire master plan has to be somewhere online.

Edit - found reference to "banshee extension" in an old article:

"A new expert trail from the top of Paulie's Folly Extension to the top of the Banshee area."

"The new trail from PFE to Banshee (which I'm going to refer to as "Banshee Extension") will be 600 vertical feet at a 60% average grade(!!); by contrast, Paulie's Folly proper is about a 45% grade. It wll be the steepest trail at Cannon, and one of the steepest trails in the East."

Cannon/Mittersill Expansion Project