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11/12/16 Trails: Firewarden, AT, Horns Pond loop Trail Conditions: Some packed snow and ice at high elevations, but still lots of bare rock Special Equipment Required: Bareboots. No use of microspikes. Used trekking poles Comments: Winter conditions on top with temperatures in the 20s and...

Trail: Blue trail Date of Hike: 9/6/15 Trail Conditions: Dry trail, very well maintained Special Equipment Required: Water Comments: My car got towed from the area of the trailhead. After hiking the mountain, I walked an additional 2 miles to the police station (located north of town on...

Date of Hike: 8/23/15 Trails: Up via Sanwich Mountain Trail; down via Drakes Brook Trail Trail Conditions: Nicely maintained trails with wide corridor. These trails would be good on a wet day since there is no encroaching side brush. Special Equipment Required: Patience for the car ride...

Date of Hike: 8/17/15 Trails: from Lafayette Campground; Fishin' Jimmie; Kinsman Trail; Lonesome Lake Trail Trail Conditions: Good trail conditions with some recent work on Fishin' Jimmie Trail. Kinsman Trail over the Cannon Balls has some muddy wet areas that eventually are going to need...

Date of Hike: 8/9/14 Trail: Roaring Brook and Hopper Trails Trail Conditions: Dry, no bugs Special Equipment Required: none Comments: Very happy to find that Bascom Lodge is open on the top of the mountain. I highly recommend the Ranger Burger.

Date of Hike: 9/1/13 Trails: Chimney Pond, Saddle, Hamlin Ridge Trail Conditions: All trails open and clear. Hamlin Ridge Trail with lots of boulders Special Equipment Required: Optimism for a #115 finish Comments: Dropped my pack at a leanto at Chimney Pond and then did Hamlin...

Date of Hike: 8/24/13 Trail: Marston Trail Trail Conditions: Dry. No downed trees. Trail crew did work last week on lower trail with water bars. Upper mountain has many stretches that need to be brushed. Special Equipment Required: Cash. $14 entrance fee for Baxter State Park, and they...

Date of Hike: 8/10/13 Trails: Firewardens, AT, Horns Pond as a loop Trail Conditions: Good trails. Upper Firewardens Trail with long stretch of rock steps Special Equipment Required: Broke in a new pair of HanWag boots (German) and used poles (I don't usually use poles) Comments: Road...

Date of Hike: 7/21/13 Trails: Jewell and Gulfside Trail Conditions: Really good Special Equipment Required: Bottle of sparkling cider and 4 cups Comments: Lots of people hiking this day - it was Seek the Peek day. Saw many through hikers. Views were in and out of clouds. Had some brief...

Date of Hike: 7/4/13 Trail: Signal ridge Trail Conditions: Woods are moist and the trail is wet with some mud. Much trail work has been done with relocations, good water bar drainage, new wood treads over wet area, and brushing. Trail crew was at work today (??Holiday pay) Special...

Date of Hike: 6/26/13 Trail Conditions: Few walk around or duck under trees. Trails wet from recent rain. Slide on Owls Head is very doable. Special Equipment Required: Sandals for 2 water crossings Comments: I got up early for this one: left the parking lot at 4:30 AM. I broke trail...

Date of Hike: 5/18/13 Trails: Edmund Trail and Crawford Trail round trip. Mt Clinton road is open. Trail Conditions: Lower Edmund Trail dry, last section on the upper Edmund Trail with patches of snow. No snow above tree line to Eisenhower and to Monroe Special Equipment Required: Bare...

Date of Hike: 5/4/13 Trails: Ski area trails and Appalachian Trail Trail Conditions: Still snow on the upper 2/3 of the ski area trails. Ridge from Saddleback Summit to the Horn is almost all dry and open. There are patches of spruce along the ridge and there is deep snow with postholes in...

Date of Hike: 4/27/13 Trail: Air Line round trip Trail Conditions: First lower 1 1/2 miles were dry trail. Next mile was ice on the steep section, then snow with early form of monorail. No snow on trail above tree line. Special Equipment Required: I used stiff mountaineering boots, and...

Date of Hike: 4/15/13 Trails: Imp trail from south parking area, North Carter Trail Trail Conditions: Spring melt lower 1 - 2 miles, much snow upper mountain Special Equipment Required: Microspikes and ski poles. Used microspikes from the trailhead, and took them off for the last 1 1/2 miles...

Date of Hike: 3/16/13 Trail: 19 Mile Brook and Zeta Pass Trail Conditions: Nice firm solid snow pack Special Equipment Required: Microspikes all day Comments: What a beautiful day. Temperatures stayed below freezing, so no thaw on the trail. View from Carter Dome to Mt Washington was...

Date of Hike: 3/3/13 Trail: Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail Trail Conditions: Packed powder on the Ammonoosuc Ravine trail with a variety of ski tracks, snowshoe tracks, and bare boots. Wandering up Monroe, there were drifts, rocks, no ice Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes MSR Lightening...

Date of Hike: 1/12/13 Trails: Ski trails: Walts Trail, Northway, Lower Rim Run, Rim Run Trail Conditions: Just above freezing most of the day, snow nice on all the ski trails Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes with poles. Carried large Gregory Palisades pack with my downhill ski boots...

Date of Hike: 12/15/12 Trails: Rocky Branch Tr, Isolation Tr, Davis Path, with the bushwack going back out Trail Conditions: Frozen snow about 2 inches, ice floes. Most of the wet areas have frozen Special Equipment Required: Microspikes Comments: Great day. Blue sky and minimal wind on...

Date of Hike: 12/2/12 Trail: Moriah-Carter Trail Trail Conditions: Slippery leaves on lower trail; Wet snow 2 inches, ice on upper trail Special Equipment Required: Microspikes on upper trail Comments: Tricky footing conditions. Temperatures were above freezing. Wet slippery leaves, snow...