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| Tahawus | Cannon Mountain  Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2007 | |
| Climbed with Northeast Cannonball and North and South Kinsman via the Lonesome Lake Trail from Franconia Notch. A fun and, at times, very steep hike. Awsome views of the Franconias across the notch from the summit tower. It's always a bit of a shock seeing all the people who rode the ski lift up after being pretty much alone in the woods for most of the day. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2008 2:22 pm | ||
| syzygy | Second 4k Ski Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2008 | |
| Ski'd up the Ski slopes after the season ended. Forgot sunscreen which I payed for. Fun views from the summit. It looks like they are taking down one of the smaller radio towers up there. Skiing down is always a nice reward even if the snow is wet and sluggish. | ||
| Posted May 25, 2008 11:25 pm | ||
| syzygy | Cloudy Hike Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2007 | |
| I think Cannon would be a somewhat boring hike otherwise. We had some fantastic clouds that made for some fun views. Lafayette was peeking in and out. | ||
| Posted May 25, 2008 11:22 pm | ||
| dirth | Hi-Cannon Winter Hike Date Climbed: Dec 15, 2007 | |
| Started from the Parking lot a little after 12:00 with my dad and my dog. Chilly but calm in the parking lot, 6 degrees. Nice hike up, couldn't decide whether snowshoes were helping or slowing us down. Good amount of snow for so early in the year. The dog loved it up until the top 100 feet where it was -10 degrees with 40 mph wind. For a wind chill of approximately -50 F, brisk. Stopped inside the tram house for a little to shake the ice and droolcicles off of the dog. Made it up in about 2.5 hours, back in about 1.5. | |
| Posted Dec 15, 2007 8:10 pm | ||
| jpvt | hi cannon | |
| fun hike, too bad the clouds never lifted | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2007 9:13 pm | ||
| AlexeyD | Duet Direct and Whitney-Gilman Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2007 | |
| One of the finest weather days in a long time, and not surprisingly Cannon was quite busy. We had some designs on Vertigo, but there was a line on it. Needless to say everybody and their grandmother were on Whitney-Gilman and Moby Grape. We ending up doing Duet Direct - two pitches, 5.7 and 5.10, then rapped off and decided on an afternoon run up the WG. Despite starting at 3, we still managed to get stuck behind some parties, but nonetheless finish the climb in around 3 hours. Overall a fine day of climbing on New Hampshire's finest! | |
| Posted Jul 23, 2007 1:44 pm | ||
| eric b | The Whitney Gilman Ridge | |
| The rock climbing route is a New England Classic. The descent was extremely steep, slippery and covered with loose rock. Facing the cliff we hiked down to the left on a climbers trail. Brutal! | |
| Posted Sep 28, 2006 2:20 am | ||
| bidwelldk | Route Climbed: Lakeview Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2005 | |
| Beautiful climb. Middle two pitches were in pretty bad shape because of the "Old Man" rock formation collapsing and tearing up the route (a lot of gravel and few reliable anchor points). Might be better now. | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2006 5:54 pm | ||
| woodstrider | Cannon Mountain Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| I went up the steep Ridge Trail from the Tramway- park at the picnic area. Lots of water on the trail the form of springs. Great views from many spots. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2006 8:24 pm | ||
| royswkr | From Coppermine Falls Date Climbed: Feb 27, 1984 | |
| Snowshoe up old ski trail | ||
| Posted Jun 14, 2006 12:17 am | ||
| chilkoot | Route climbed: Kinsman Ridge Trail | |
| I've climbed Cannon a couple of times and always enjoy the view of Lincoln and Lafayette from the top, despite the development from the ski area. | |
| Posted Jun 9, 2006 2:00 pm | ||
| Matt Worster | Hi-Cannon | |
| Led a boy scout troop up the hill, learning the art of conversation as a way to make them forget about the work they were doing :-) | |
| Posted Mar 29, 2006 5:08 pm | ||
| Bozo | Route Climbed: HiCannon trail Date Climbed: 5 nov 05 | |
| Great day for hiking, the trail is not so long and we have a nice view of the Franconia ridge. | |
| Posted Nov 6, 2005 8:00 pm | ||
| Seth Maciejowski | Route Climbed: Hi Cannon, Moby Grape, Black Dike, Whitney Gilman, lakeview Date Climbed: Many Times | |
| I must say I've only actually tagged the summit the time I went up the Hi Cannon trail, otherwise I've only been to the top of the cliff. The clifftop is much more impressive then the summit of this one although the lookout tower does have good views to the west and north which you cannot see from the cliff. A nice mountain all around. | |
| Posted Oct 17, 2005 2:02 pm | ||
| SCCupsa | Route Climbed: Hi-Cannon Trail Date Climbed: July 1, 2005 | |
| Great climb for an experienced hiker. Much more difficult than I expected, but fun nonetheless. Quick though, and beautiful views of the White Mountains. | ||
| Posted Sep 27, 2005 1:21 pm | ||
| dwhike | Route Climbed: Hi-Cannon Trail Date Climbed: Summer 1991 | |
| A nice hike from our campsite at Franconia Notch State Park. | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2005 9:16 am | ||
| rolkamon | Route Climbed: Whitney-Gilman Ridge Date Climbed: 3 July 04 | |
| A fantastic climb. Direct start, standard finish. Attention grabbing climb. All the hype about the pipe pitch is rightly so. Super gut check to step out over what must be 300ft vertical face, and climb probably 8ft of over hanging rock. We climbed it in 6 pitches, all good, pipe pitch (4) spectacular, pitch 5 and 6 great climbing as well. No enjoyment of the scenery, just laser like focus on the climb and getting to the top. The belays for pitches 5 and 6 are small, several sq ft, perched on the edge of the north wall of the arret overhanging the Black Dike. Hardly any psychologic comfort at all. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2004 7:04 am | ||
| rolkamon | Route Climbed: Black Dike Date Climbed: Feb 2, 03 | |
| Will always remember this climb. When we got back down, we learned the shuttle Columbia crashed. A day of personal triumph, doing a super classic climb and a day of national tragedy. The climb was pegged out, the crux, while still dificult to protect had pick holes to hook all over the place. | |
| Posted Mar 19, 2004 1:47 pm | ||
| CharlesD | Route Climbed: Kinsman Ridge Tr. Date Climbed: August 15, 2001 | |
| Very nice hike. Great weather, fantastic views and about 10% the number of people visible across the way on the Franconia traverse. Ascent via the Kinsman Ridge trail and descent via Hi-Cannon past Lonesome Lake (which was anything but lonesome at the time). | |
| Posted Mar 18, 2004 11:05 am | ||
| fox5659 | Route Climbed: Bushwhacked Date Climbed: August 1974 | |
| In 1974 a buddy and I got disgusted with the numbers of people on the AT and started bushwhacking. We didn't see people but we did see so much more. We felt (and must have looked) like we'd landed on another planet when we got to the top of Cannon. After not seeing another human for 4 days it was pretty overpowering. | |
| Posted Sep 24, 2003 7:26 pm | ||
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