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Lower Hardscrabble at Cannon Mountain Ski Area

Intermediate · 575 m long with 161 m of vertical, averaging 16° and 23° at its steepest, facing N.

23°steepest 50 m
16°average pitch
575 mlength
161 mvertical
937 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Lower Hardscrabble is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to Lower Hardscrabble

Lifts that reach the top: Peabody Express Quad (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Cannonball Quad (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 11 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Peabody Express Quad
  2. Ski Middle Cannon (intermediate)
  3. Ski Easy Link (intermediate)
  4. Ski unnamed trail
  5. Ski Lower Hardscrabble (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Blueball. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Peabody Express Quad (3 min), Huckerbrook Handle Tow (4 min), Brookside Triple (5 min).

See Lower Hardscrabble on the 3D mapAll runs at Cannon Mountain Ski Area
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.