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Cannon Mountain (formerly Profile Mountain) is a 4,186 foot (1,276 meter) peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Known for both its technical rock climbing (particularly on Cannon Cliff, pictured) and its skiing (it is a state owned ski area), the mountain was home to the Old Man of the Mountain until its collapse on May 3, 2003. It is also the parent mountain of three mountains (with heights of 3,693, 3,700, and 3,769 feet (1,125, 1,127 and 1,148 meters)) collectively known as "The Cannon Balls." Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x900, 125 KB)Cannon Mountain from Mount Liberty. ...
A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 46th 24,239 km² 110 km 305 km 3. ...
The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ...
This article is about the White Mountains of New Hampshire. ...
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This article is about the White Mountains of New Hampshire. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 46th 24,239 km² 110 km 305 km 3. ...
Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ...
A ski area is a place where one goes to participate in the sports of skiing and snowboarding. ...
The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the great stone face, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA that, when viewed from the correct angle, appeared to be the jagged profile of a face. ...
History
In 1972, the US Board on Geographic Names officially changed the name from "Profile Mountain," which it had been called officially since 1917, to "Cannon Mountain." The two names both are derived from natural rock formations featured on the mountain; the former being the famous "Old Man of the Mountain" and the latter being a series of boulders which, when viewed from the foot of the mountain, resemble an antique artilerry cannon. A small cast-iron cannon on a carriage ????? Cannon also refers to a large, smooth-bored, muzzle-loading gun used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns firing explosive shells. ...
Cannon is also one of the oldest ski areas in North America. Trails had been cut on the mountain prior to 1933, but the mountain gained widespread recognition that year, when the Taft Slalom was cut as the first racing trail in North America. The mountain gained lift service with the construction of the first aerial tramway in North American, in 1938. A new tram was erected in 1980 with a vertical ascent of 2022 feet and a capacity of 140 people (two seventy-person cabins), rougly three times larger than the original lift. The old tram base- and summit-stations remain intact, and one of the old cabins serves as the entranceway to the New England Ski Museum, opened in 1982 at the mountain's base area. The museum houses "the most extensive collection of historical ski equipment, clothing, film, photographs, literature, and artwork in the East" and is one of four museums in the U.S. to be recognized by the United States Ski Association as a Regional Museum. See also: 1932 in sports, 1934 in sports and the list of years in sports. Baseball New York Giants defeat Washington Senators in the World Series, 4-1. ...
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Mountain Use Cannon Mountain and the surrounding base area is used year-round for a variety of recreational reasons, including sports such as hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as being a popular tourist destination. Beautiful natural scenes are common hiking destinations Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ...
Climbers on Valkyrie at the Roaches. ...
Members of the US Air Force skiing (and snowboarding) at Keystone Resorts 14th Annual SnoFest An alpine skier Deep powder skiing Skiing is the activity of gliding over snow using skis (originally wooden planks, now usually made from fiberglass or related composites) strapped to the feet with ski bindings. ...
Hiking There are a number of trails that criss-cross Cannon Mountain and the surrounding region (a map can be found here), but only one trail, the Kinsman Ridge Trail, can be taken un-interrupted from the trailhed to the summit. This trail begins in the Aerial Tramway parking lot and ascends the north face of the mountain, which is shared by the ski area. Two other features of the mountain which attract hikers are the Appalachian Trail and the Appalachian Mountain Club-maintained Lonesome Lake Hut. The Pocosin cabin along the trail in Shenandoah National Park The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply The A.T., is a 2,174 mile (3500 km) marked hiking trail in the eastern United States, extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin...
Looking south on the Franconia Ridge Trail AMC Headquarters, 5 Joy Street, Boston, Massachusetts. ...
The High Huts of the White Mountains are a series of eight alpine huts in the White Mountains, owned and maintained by the Appalachian Mountain Club, modeled after similar huts in the Alps. ...
Climbing Cannon Cliff (pictured above) is the largest vertical rock face in the Northeast at rougly 1,000 feet (331 meters) in height and more than a mile (1.6 km) long. As written in a description of climbing possibilities on Cannon, "Some of the aid lines are long and difficult enough to require a bivy, making Cannon the only Big Wall in the northeast." Cannon is popular both in the summer months with free- and aid-climbers alike, and in the winter it attracts both ice climbers and mixed climbers (climbers who ascend routes with some pitches of ice and some pitches of rock). To prevent losing climbers, there is a log book climbers are asked to sign into and out of. If an unusual amount of time passes before a climber signs out, a search party is formed. Aid climbing is a style of climbing in which fixed or placed protection is used to make upward progress. ...
Climbers bivouac outside an hermitage in Europe In mountaineering, a bivouac, bivy, or bivy sack, is an extremely lightweight alternative to traditional tent systems. ...
Free climbing is a style of climbing in which the climber uses no artificial aids to make progress upwards, but just hands, feet and other parts of the body. ...
Ice climbing is the recreational activity of climbing ice formations such as icefalls, and frozen waterfalls. ...
Skiing The Cannon Mountain Ski Area is state owned and offers nine lifts and servicing 165 acres of skiing (158 with snowmaking). Until 1984, the north-northwestern face of Cannon was operated under the name Mittersill Ski Area (the current area occupies the north-north eastern face). The trails are often skied by those that know the area as a result of their ease of accessibility (only a short hike is required from Taft Slalom to find them). However, in the late 1990s/early 2000s, the State of New Hampshire unvieled plans to purchase the north-northwestern face and use the already-cut trails as an expansion to the current ski area.[1] US Olympic skier Bode Miller grew up skiing at Cannon.[2] Alpine skiing (or downhill skiing) is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long, thin skis attached to each foot. ...
Bode Miller on the cover of time (January 23, 2006. ...
Tourism  Cannon has a number of non-sport realted features which make it a popular tourist attraction. The aerial tramway operates year round, and in the summer is the only way up the mountain other than hiking. Though the lift terminates at the summit of the ski area, which is not the peak of the mountain itself, two hiking trails (The Cannon Mountain Short Trail and the Rim Trail) provide a way to the summit. There, an observation tower provides a panoramic view of the White Mountains Region. Another attraction until the spring of 2003 was the Old Man of the Mountain; However, the "Old Man of the Mountain Historic Site" remains an attraction. Also notable is Profile Lake, a lake popular with both fly fisherman and anglers. Lastly, the New England Ski Museum attracts skiers to the area in the off-season, as well. The White Mountains Region is located in northern New Hampshire. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Fly rod and reel with a wild brown trout from a chalk stream. ...
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Resources - Geographic Names Information System Feature Detail Report from United States Board on Geographic Names
- Information from summitpost.org
- A Skiing History website with information on the Taft Slalom and the Aerial Tramway
- Article on Aerial Tramway
- ^ Plans for Mittersil Expansion.
- ^ Story on Bode Miller
See also In mountaineering, the four-thousand footers (or 4ks) refers to a group of mountains of interest in the sport of peak-bagging. Each peak is at least four thousand feet above sea level, and also meets a more technical criterion of topographic prominence. ...
The White Mountains Region is located in northern New Hampshire. ...
This is a list of mountains in the state of New Hampshire. ...
External links - Maps and aerial photos
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image from TerraServer-USA
- Surrounding area map from Google Maps
- Location in the United States from the Census Bureau
- Cannon Mountain Ski Area Homepage
- EPA Federal Register of Cannon/Mittersill Land Exchange; White Mountain National Forest, Grafton County, NH
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