Demo Day at Cannon
December 10th, 2004
Demo day at Cannon today which allowed me to sample all the skis you want for only $20.00. It was an incredible deal that I could not pass up. The big winner of the day was the Dynastar Legend 8000 178cm which I later purchased.
The original plan was to ski Cannon on Friday and then stay overnight at the ‘Dice in Gorham from where I would decide where to attack Saturday. I just was not believing the hype regarding potential snow fall overnight when I was leaving Cannon so I decided to head home and research the skis online after wrapping the day up at Cannon.
Middle/Lower Ravine with Big up top provided the only way down with the side option of Short Link just like the previous weekend. Snow conditions were much better overall this weekend with the same general situation of decent pushed around loose powder on skier’s left on Big Link, skierls right on Short Link, skierls right on Middle Ravine, and skierls left on Lower Ravine. Essentially you could link turns on non-groomed feeling snow 75% of the route on mini-bumps and loose snow. I established a “route” down the trails to keep my testing conditions essentially the same for every ski. While the conditions were boring they allowed for excellent ski comparison for the demos.
Regarding other non-opened trails, the groomers and ski patrol were busy on Middle/Lower Cannon today and that is a lot to open for this coming weekend. All other trails had less snow and coverage than last week, especially the Front Five which would need a solid one foot dump to open without snow making at this point, and that is not happening any time soon.
The weather was fair with patchy fog and cloudiness. I wish I had gotten some pictures of the fog in the valleys making an under cast near the lower surrounding hills, but I was too busy pushing the skis to pull out my camera. The mountain saw a small amount of sleet or freezing rain around noon time and just a touch of light snow when I left at three. hardly a prelude to a dumping. By the time I got to Plymouth, the sky opened up and started raining. Cannon will definitely benefit from the system moving in this weekend but don’t expect any additional terrain to open other than Middle/Lower Cannon.
