Not So Powdery Conclusion to the Cannon Trifecta

My predictions of Sunday being an epic completion to three days of incredible skiing at Cannon went wrong. The snow storm never materialized in full at Cannon. I would estimate a three day total of about 5-8 inches (matching the actual numbers provided on Cannon’s web site). Not much snow fell after I left Cannon Saturday night. Sunday brought out a huge amount of people which would explain why the crowds were light on Saturday. The Cannonball Quad went down for two hours during the morning which sent massive amounts of people to the Tram (people were queued up over the bridge!) and the Zoomer Triple Chair (5 minute wait). These were the longest lines I have ever seen at Cannon by far due to the Cannonball Quad being down.

I was feeling significant pain after nearly back to back powder days on Thursday and Saturday. I did not think I was going to make it past noon time as the turns were hard and painful. Bumps were solidifying across the front face trails with regularly groomed sections of Zoomer and Avalanche featuring ice between the bumps. The regular bump lines are okay in the troughs except Zoomer Lift is a tad thin. Lakeview was very packed down but skied rather well. A lot of scraping was featured everywhere on the mountain, despite the fact that it was still snowing during the day and loose snow bumps were forming on nearly every trail by day’s end.

Snow report at 7:15 A.M. stated that all 55 trails were open but Kinsman and Tramline were roped. Did they close it due to the crowds and to keep the joeys from hurting themselves? Honestly, Tramline was definitely skiable from the view above. I was disappointed for my skiing partners who wanted to give that trail a run as it skied fine Saturday and looked fine Sunday as well. I still found some untracked Sunday, but it was very heavy snow and I would rather have been skiing through something more tracked up.

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