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Short Fuse at Cannon Mountain Ski Area

Advanced · 123 m long with 48 m of vertical, averaging 21° and 25° at its steepest, facing N.

25°steepest 50 m
21°average pitch
123 mlength
48 mvertical
985 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Short Fuse

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

From the base area (about 22 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Peabody Express Quad
  2. Ski Middle Cannon (intermediate)
  3. Ski Easy Link (intermediate)
  4. Ski unnamed trail
  5. Ride Cannonball Quad
  6. Ski Taft Slalom (intermediate)
  7. Ski Upper Ravine (intermediate)
  8. Ski Short Fuse (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Lower Hardscrabble, unnamed trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Peabody Express Quad (4 min), Huckerbrook Handle Tow (6 min), Brookside Triple (7 min).

See Short Fuse 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.