My husband and I moved to Meredith full time at the end of October. The week after we moved in, the Laconia Health Club closed, Santosha Yoga moved out to Moultonboro and our favorite in-town coffee shop closed. Those were all disappointments, and now the potential end of free skiing midweek for seniors at Cannon is really putting ice in my veins.
My husband is 66, and his child bride is 61. When my grandparents were this age they were looking for nursing facilities. In 2016 seniors are more fit. This year’s offering of snow was scant, but two weeks ago we skied all day with fellow geezers on four of the front five that were open. There was so much whooping you would have thought you were in the Cannonball Pub on a Saturday afternoon.
Sure it’s a great perk for seniors, and one that keeps you going a couple exits past Waterville and Loon, but it also has us “oldsters” bringing our children and grandchildren up on school vacations to a mountain that is often avoided by families in favor of a destination resort.
This is because we appreciate the goodwill Cannon offers us the rest of the season.
Hey, if you didn’t have seniors skiing Profile midweek, breaking up those chunks, what kind of shape do you think it would be in for the weekend skiers?
Please reconsider.
Pat Weston
Meredith