| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
Mt. Major, Straightback Mountain, Mt. Anna, West Quarry Mountain, Mt. Klem, Mt. Mack, Piper Mountain, Belknap Mountain, Gunstock Mountain, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Mt. Major Trail, Belknap Range Trail, Marsh Crossing Trail, Dave Roberts Quarry Trail, Mack Klem Loop, Red Orange Trail, Round Pond Piper Link, Old Piper Trail, White Trail, Blue Trail, Saddle Trail, Brook Trail, ski slopes |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, April 6, 2019 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
No issues at 0800 at either Gunstock or Major. Major was full on our return, spilling onto 11b |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail, Snow - Trace/Minimal Depth, Wet Trail, Ice - Blue, Wet/Slippery Rock, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Snow - Wet/Sticky, Snow - Spring Snow, Leaves - Significant/Slippery, Slush, Snow/Ice - Small Patches |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Light Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
All crossings today still where hoppable. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
The blazing is pretty ridiculous out here. For instance on the green trails around round pond and piper, every other or third tree is blazed, you can see six different sets of blazes on a straight away of red/green by the pond, yet on switchbacks on quarry or belknap, there is one white blaze now and then. The trail adopters do a great job out here, but the amount of blazes is absurd. It's a logging road, how many blazes do you need? |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
Pemi crushed it |
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 | Bugs: |
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 | Lost and Found: |
Nanospike around Piper, left at Major |
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 | Comments: |
Glorious spring conditions today. Went with the intent to get all 12 today but we skipped Whiteface and Rowe given the conditions and our disdain for them. We used our hillsounds basically end to end. I'm not sure if I'd recommend taking your crappy spikes or your good ones. It's a losing battle to take them on and off as the trail conditions change every 50 feet. You might end up wrecking your good spikes, but you crappy spikes but not bite enough into the blue ice on the trail, which i'd estimate 60% of this traverse was. Just straight up blue ice that even newish hillsounds where not biting into much. Use caution and judgement. We skipped the quarry ledges because they seemed ripe for a broken leg. Around Round Pond you could bareboot until you make the hard 90 up to piper. It's just a maddening mix of ice, snow hidden by leaves, mud, bare ground, and rock faces.
Wet feet, 10 peaks, it was a darn great day though! |
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 | Name: |
The Teal Goat, Hallie & Pemi |
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 | E-Mail: |
sea2thebiscuit@yahoo.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2019-04-06 |
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 | Link: |
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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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