Last week before the rain storm Saturday morning, the entire mountain was fully covered. This week there was barely any snow on Paulie’s and no snow under the Zoomer Lift with lots of bare spots showing on Avalanche and Zoomer. Not totally unexpected but the damage is considerable when you take into account just how deep the snow cover was a few weeks earlier.

Brian and I met at the Peabody Lodge to share some turns today on this late season foray. The snow surface froze hard overnight and was teeth chattering frozen granular in the morning. I stuck to the groomers which skied okay but were begging for some sun. Things didn’t warm up as fast as i had expected, but around noon time, every trail on the mountain was gold. But by early afternoon, it was mostly mushy mashed potatoes.

Pick of the day was Vista Way for nice soft bumps and fine views with hardly any clouds. Yet another fantastic day at Cannon! I have had more good weather days than bad this year at Cannon, it has been an amazing year. Honorable mention goes to Middle to Lower Cannon for a great run to let the skis run. It is how I opened my season at Cannon and how I closed my season at Cannon.

Of course, I needed to have a Mitt fix just once more. Most of the saddle had no snow, but Taft skied great! I took a look down the 13 turns and was not comfortable with what i was seeing. I was debating a skin up the 13 turns after Cannon closed but definitely was not seeing optimal conditions. Options were limited to Baron’s at the spit. Islands of former bumps mixed with islands of trees were found on Baron’s. It would have been fantastic if the snow was a little softer with just a little bit more snow left. I had to make some saving turns in places were the cover ran out. A fun adventure though.

Pond Skimming was a joke! Cannon needs to check out Burke’s Pond Skimming and see how it’s done right. No one even made it half way across the pond. I know it is fun to see people get wet. But you can’t keep the audience interested when snowboarders are stopping just before the entrance to the pond due to lack of speed, stepping out of their bindings, and then jumping in any ways! You need to have at least a few people make it across to have final elimination rounds.

See you next year Cannon. Thanks for a great year.