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Narrowest trail with snowmaking?

deadheadskier

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It seems like most classic New England trails are natural snow trails with a greater density of them falling up North at areas with 200 plus inches of annual snow. Don't get me wrong, there are some great ones at areas with much less annual snow, but many seem to have been widened over the years with snow making added to ensure more reliable opening.

Got me thinking what's the narrowest trail in the East with snowmaking. For definition sake, let's call narrow 25 feet wide or less. Hard to think of many.
 

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Upper Cannon comes to mind. A touch wider than 25 feet. Mickey's Margin at Cannon also.... if you want to classify that as an actual trail. Wasn't on the maps until Cannon started going nuts with the trail counts a few years back.
 

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Quite short, but one of the newer trails in New England, Southpaw at Sunday River comes to mind for me and is also probably closer to 30. That was a pleasant surprise to ski it the first time. Cool, new trail that's not a super highway.
 

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Chute at Burke is short, narrow, and rather uninteresting, but it does have snow making.
Carriage Road is longer and more interesting, and it has snow making.
 
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Powerline at Killington is quite narrow and gets snow made on it.
Rattler at Sno Mtn is about 15 feet wide and has snow made on it as well, but it's more of a connection.
 

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I'll have ditto Riv's call on Upper Cannon.I'm amazed that year after year they seem to get most of the snow on the trail.It was covered great last weekend.It would be hard to find a tougher trail to make snow on with how much it winds bach and forth.They also pull hoses through the woods to make snow on Parkway but its much easier to make with it being the old Hong Kong chair liftline straightshot.
Do they make snow on Misery Whip at the Loaf?I don't think so.
 
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Quite short, but one of the newer trails in New England, Southpaw at Sunday River comes to mind for me and is also probably closer to 30. That was a pleasant surprise to ski it the first time. Cool, new trail that's not a super highway.

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How about Illusion at Mount Snow (Canyon Area). It's about 1.5 cat widths wide.
 

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Several narrow trails at Sundown, mostly beginner trails. Annapurana at Hunter is pretty narrow in spots at the top, but widens out at the bottom.
 

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Where is Spookie at Cannon? Don't see it on the map. Just curious if I may have skied it last winter.
 
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