Cannon Traill Opening

[SIKSKIER]

Agreed.I cant stand the usual Middle Cannon,Lower Cannon opening day 1 trail.

 

[Puck it]

This satifies the question thoroughly!

 

[CoolMike]

Its going to be an ugly opening there this year unless they can recover very quickly from 3"+ of rain.

If I were in charge of mountain ops I'd be making snow mountains with the fan and tower guns and then spend all day on Thursday spreading the snow around the hill. There will be huge ice chunks but at least there will be coverage.

Edit: from the picture it looks like they are going with the man-made snow hill plan. Good for them.

 

[SIKSKIER]

Edit: from the picture it looks like they are going with the man-made snow hill plan. Good for them.

Huh?Vs natural?

 

[SIKSKIER]

Here ya go.

 

[Puck it]

Huh?Vs natural?

I did not get that one either. I thought it was me.

 

[CoolMike]

I meant to say stack it up and store it in big mounds as the plan of attack. Run the guns over less area but in more concentration to get those huge mounds.

Lots of mountains stack and plow/groom to build a base (example: Sunday River).

I hope they can really stack it up today and tomorrow.

Either way it might be ugly on Friday.

 

[CoolMike]

Just re-read my above posts and I think that snowboarding all day sunday and then watching sunday night football has fried my brains

Good luck to all who hit up Cannon on Friday!

 

[drjeff]

I meant to say stack it up and store it in big mounds as the plan of attack. Run the guns over less area but in more concentration to get those huge mounds.

Lots of mountains stack and plow/groom to build a base (example: Sunday River).

I hope they can really stack it up today and tomorrow.

Either way it might be ugly on Friday.

I think that if any head of mtn ops in the next 24hrs makes the call to spread out any of the whales they've made on unopened terrain the last few days, that you really need to question their sanity with the liquid precip on the way. Keep closed trails closed until Friday AM!!

Let the water hit the whales, let them drain a bit and try and freeze up, and then, likely after the grooming crews have had their Turkey Dinner on Thursday, have them then go to work and spread those mounds out and make a few passes with the tiller to get a bunch of new terrain with a machine groomed loose granular surface seeing their 1st rope drop of the season. If they then can "mix" a little fresh manmade into those groomed out whales, you could end up with a pretty decent snow surface come Friday AM, and at the same time preserved more of the product that has been made the last few days! a win-win situation!

 

[SIKSKIER]

Sorry Jeff.Not sure 1-3 inches of rain has any "win" in the equation for me.:evil: