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Hiked out 19 Mile Brook Trail, which was well broken out. But Carter Dome Trail was not broken out and followed and extended a trail for a ways, never made the ridge. Was a group behind us that probably went further, but if you head up that way expect some serious trail breaking.

Use the Garfield and Garfield Ridge Trails. Was 51 degrees at the start of the hike and over 40 at the summit fortunately no rain. He hiked mostly in tee shirts, needed our rain shells because of winds at the summit. The end of the Gale River Loop road has not been plowed so needed to park at...

Trails Jewell Trail Gulfside Trail Conditions Trails were in good conditions, a few blow downs that we were able to walk around. The summits were clear with little wind and a major under cast. Almost no snow and very little ice. However the wood bridges and retaining steps were very slick...

Kilkenny Ridge Trail was in reasonable shape and easy to follow. Lots of blow downs, but most easy to get around. There was one heading up South Weeks (from Middle) that had a blow down that required some adventure to get around. Starr King trail as usually was in good shape. The following...

Moosilauke via Glenncliff and Carriage Road 20 February 2015 Trail Conditions: parking load and trail are both in really good conditions only an occasional post hole. Nicely packed down snow not slick enough for butt sliding, was a fair amount of ice above tree level, but no problem. Saw...

Date of Hike: March 19th, 2014 Trail Conditions: snow from bottom to top, well packed at the bottom, but breaking trail on fresh snow up high. Blueberry Ledge Trail well broken out, half the group used snow shoes and the other half microspikes lots of blow downs; Rollins Trail had a foot of...

Carter Dome and Mount Height 19 Mile Brook Trail, Carter Moria Trail (Stayed at Hut so returned the same way) Date of Hike: 02/22/2014 (Saturday) Trail Conditions: All trails were in good shape, 19 Mile Brook was starting to break up at some of the stream crossings, but they were easily...

Date of Hike:1/25 Trail Conditions: Hard packed snow, not very deep, icy in a lot of places, some exposed rock. There were a number of false trails that you need to be careful about following, one before each peak. There was good snow up to the first lookout then the trail was mostly ice...

Trails: Moat Mountain Trail south to north Conditions: Mostly crusty snow cover. Some stretches up South Moat were bare ground. There were also some icy patches coming off of Middle Moat and going up North Moat. Special equipment: Used MICROspikes the entire hike, they offered enough...

Mount Monroe, Eisenhower and Pierce Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail / Crawford Path Date of Hike: 01/04/2014 (Saturday) Trail Conditions: Ammo was lightly broken out, but in good shape, we used snowshoes till the steep part and switched to crampons, some deep snow made this decision questionable...

Was planning on hiking the Monadnock Sunapee Greenway over Sunapee this weekend. Just saw headlines about flooding during the week. Does anyone know about trail conditions?

Date of Hike: 2 February 2013 Trail Conditions: Trail up to Pierce was mostly packed snow with some ice patches. Between Pierce and Eisenhower was mostly sheets of ice with some exposed rock. Special Equipment Required: Used micro spikes till ascent of Eisenhower then most of us changed to...

date: 12/13/12 trails: Falling Waters, Franconia Ridge, Greenleaf, Old Bridle Path conditions: Lots of ice, especially around the around the water falls, used micro spikes on the lower portion of the trails. It was fairly easy to rock hope over the streams, but it did get tiring after a...

date: 12/12/12 trails: Hancock Notch, Cedar Brook, Hancock Loop conditions: Light snow cover, ice and black ice. All stream crossings were low and easy to rock hop, though be careful of black ice. Bare booted it till somewhere between North and South peaks and then put on micro spikes...

Trails: Carter Moriah Trail (5/3/12) In general the trail was in good shape, the bog bridges are in really bad shape and there was a lot of standing water around them. The ledges were ice free but still slick from the rain. There was no snow or ice to speak of till the last 1/8 of a mile, we...

via Mount Tecumseh Trail Trail Conditions: Trail was in good shape, all water crossings were either easy or bone dry (not a good sign). The trail was snow free on the lower third and gradually increasing snow cover from there, but never got to any real depth. All icy portions were slushy and...

via Starr King Trail Trail Conditions: The trail was in good shape, no blow downs and well broken out. The lower third of the trail is snow free, but increases to good coverage by the top of Starr King. Icy sections were all soft and easy to get over. Between Starr King and Waumbek the snow is...

A little of everything today soft snow down below, lot's of bare spots higher up. No real hard ice. Tried snow shoes but didn't help much micro spikes were the foot ware of choice. temps around 60 at the summit. Some slick spots but generally an easy hike.

Beautiful day, started to clear in the afternoon. Trails in good shape. One blow down, but easy to get around. Used micro spikes but you could easily have bare booted it. Lots of people on Liberty but only three of us headed over to Flume. Did. It see any one come up the slide.

trails: Lonesome Lake trail, Kinsman Ridge Trail conditions: a few inches of snow on the trail, some people bare booted it, saw a lot of people with snow shoes. I used microspikes with no problems. Very few ice patches, and the trail was out of the wind except for the observation deck. We did...