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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks North Bald Cap , NH
Trails
Trails: Bald Cap Road, skid road, bushwhack
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Sunday, September 22, 2019
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: Parked in a pullout shortly after turning onto Bald Cap Road, just opposite the right fork. Road is pretty eroded and no longer drivable except maybe an ATV. Saw tracks all the way up to 1.1 mile mark. 
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Dry Trail 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment:  
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes:  
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes:  
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes:  
Bugs
Bugs:  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: ATV/Jeep Road (Bald Cap), skidded road, bushwhack

Walked up Bald Cap Road, past a culvert to a clearing. Here the road becomes a little more overgrown but still nice as it forks slightly left. Continued to a second clearing at @1.1 mile. Here the road seems to end due to significant overgrowth. We continued through the bushes just above the clearing then took a sharp left onto an overgrown skid road. Followed this using occasional moose paths all the way to the col at about 2350'. Here the road levels off then becomes more overgrown with spruce. We saw an opening in the direction of the summit so started our bushwhack. A slight drop to a marshy area which was not too bad then started up the slope winding through spruce until we came out at some ledges. Continued on the ledges and occasional spruce to a wide ledge with a small cairn. The summit jar was hanging on a dead tree just past some spruces beyond the cairn. On the way down we decided to descend the ledges which were not as steep as the map indicated. Pretty clear spruce woods down to the marsh and the skid road. The rest of the way was the same route as we had taken up.  
Name
Name: Lady B and Italian 
E-Mail
E-Mail: italian10_22@yahoo.com 
Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2019-09-22 
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