Cannon Mountain 9/29

On Thursday we visited Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch New Hampshire. While there we visited the New England Ski Museum and got to briefly explore the the mountain. The museum had all types of interesting memorabilia like Bode Miller's Olympic medals, dozens of skis from different era's and a lot of pictures and personal accounts of skiing history in New England. While there we sat in on a presentation about the history of ski areas and their formation in New Hampshire which was very informative. After visiting the museum we looked around the Man on the Mountain display and learned all about its discovery and what lead to its collapse. Shortly after we rode the tram to the top of the mountain in a dense fog which was unfortunate, but it was still cool to see the amount of technology at the base and summmit of the mountain involved in running the tram. The size of the counterweight and cables at the top of the tram in particular were impressive to say the least. Hopefully I can make a trip to Cannon sometime this winter to ride the tram again and experience the mountain even more.