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...Cannon mountain, skiing is poor, with from nine to 20 inches of settled powder, and the rest of Franconia Notch has only five inches or less. Canaan, Bristol, Plymouth, Tamworth, and Wood stock, Vt all report good skiing on from six to eight inches of cover...
Jaffrey, N. H. is the nearest place to Boston with good conditions having five inches of powder, but nearby Keene, Peterboro, and Walpole report no snow...
This leaves as the best bets for this weekend Waterville Valley, 14 inches of base with four inches of power; Mt. Mansfield, 17 to 37 power; North Conway, 14 to 26 power; Pinkham Notch, 22 base with two powder; Jackson, 14 powder; Intervale, 12 powder; and Bartlett, eight powder...
Farther north, out of reach of the majority of exam-ridden skiers, the Laurentian Mountains offer two inches of new powder on a 16-inch base...
...been found that some of steel's former disadvantages can be overcome by plating it thinly with copper. This protects the steel from 1) rust, 2) damage by powder fumes, which corrode unplated steel casings so badly that they can be used only once, though brass casings can be re-used four times. Copperplated steel casings, however, seem to be resistant enough to be re-used 15 times-a great saving even though steel is harder to tool in the first place...