| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Mt. Cardigan (attempt), NH |
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 | Trails: |
West Ridge Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, October 5, 2019 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Perfect sunny Fall Saturday. 40 cars filled lot and we counted 40 more on access road as we drove home at 3:30 PM. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
All have cross-drains or bridges |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Over 4 trips beyond such routine jobs as cleaning drains and chopping blowdowns, Cardigan Highlanders Volunteer Trail Crew has built fixtures to mitigate erosion problems 0.6 miles above the trailhead. Those washouts result from snowshoers packing down a monorail of ice that dammed a seasonal stream that crosses the trail; the resulting flood undermined a waterbar and blew out two earthen drainage dips.
All three fixture are now replaced with rock waterbars of stones up to ~400 lbs. set about 3/4 their height across the trail, with deeper ditches uphill to carry water past the rocks. They have 5.4, and 4 rocks plus rock scree as needed on either end. There are also 6 new rock steps on steeper slopes as needed. The work took 41 hours.
No erosion mitigation is absolutely certain against forces of nature, but we believe these will work much better than what we had there since 1985. |
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 | Name: |
Creag nan drochaid |
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 | E-Mail: |
crgsnbrn@yahoo.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2019-10-05 |
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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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