Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Puzzle Mountain, ME |
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| Trails: |
Puzzle Mountain Trail |
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| Date of Hike: |
Saturday, December 1, 2018 |
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| Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Parking lot was nicely plowed, as usual. |
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| Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Drifts |
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| Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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| Water Crossing Notes: |
Minor streams are flowing but easy to hop across. |
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| Trail Maintenance Notes: |
A few blow downs to navigate, and many branches to duck under along the old road portion of the trail. Nothing challenging. |
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| Comments: |
We followed a partly broken snowshoe track to the registration box. This section was crusty enough that it would have been possible to bare boot, but we snowshoed. A little beyond we met a gentleman descending, who had broken the trail out from there up to the view point ledge. He commented that he had difficulty following the trail in places, but just stay to the right and we would be on track. We broke trail from the ledge up to the summit, encountering powdery drifts of 2-3 feet. The trees were beautifully coated with snow. |
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| Name: |
Emily |
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| Date Submitted: |
2018-12-01 |
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| Link: |
https:// |
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Disclaimer: Reports are not verified - conditions may vary. Use at own risk. Always be prepared when hiking. Observe all signs. Trail conditions reports are not substitutes for weather reports or common sense. |
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