| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Pitcher Mountain, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, May 30, 2020 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Parked near library in Center Nelson, lots of room since nothing is going on these days. There are nice benches and free wifi in front of their library. We were first car in the Pitcher Mt. parking lot and on our return it was completely full. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
I think all water crossings had bridges today! Fun to take the Box Culvert sidewalk under the road between highway garage and Nye Road near Granite Lake! |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Excellent Conditions today, one blow down easily stepped over somewhere near where the burn area on Melville Hill. Ran into trail maintainer Dave Roy near Pitcher Mt., thanks Dave! |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
sure why not |
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 | Bugs: |
yes if you stood still and they are hungry but luckily there was a marvelous wind that kept them mostly away. |
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 | Comments: |
Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway, Center Nelson to Pitcher Mountain
Good early start! Met Nelson's police officer on Log Cabin Road he told us the black flies are hungry. Wonderful hike today, not too hot and a nice breeze and lots of pretty wildflowers and nice forests. Good old roads and nice trails today. We got a kick going under the road in the box culvert with a sidewalk. We took a break at the Crider Shelter--it is a fair distance off the trail but it is a nice one (guidebook says it was built with donated lumber from Carlisle Wide Plank Floors--my high school science teacher a long time ago --thank you Mr. Carlisle. Center Pond is lovely and there is a small chapel with free bottles of water, a public boat ramp and nice camps along the waters edge. We saw quite a few homeowners enjoying their camps. Andorra Forrest is out of a fairy tale it is so wide open lovely and Robinson's Brook's cascades add to the trail's charm. Just before we were to cross Route 123 we met to people walking south. We went by another couple on our way up Pitcher Mountain and then we ran into Dave Roy, he remembered me from when we did trail work with the BRATTS! Good views from the summit and up the stairs to just below the tower's cabin. Fun to see where we had come from and were we are headed next outing. We ate our lunch on the rocks in the sun. Becca flicked a wood tick off her leg (no idea how long it had been crawling around). We descended the trail and took Hubbard Hill Road back to our car. (fyi 11.3 miles) |
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 | Name: |
Nordic_Gal, Becca Munroe |
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 | E-Mail: |
amybike@gmail.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2020-05-30 |
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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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