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The day after the rain Buckette (Anne Gwynne) and I decided to tag this peak, since no views were predicted. The prediction was correct. We used snowshoes the whole way from the parking lot, but the trail was disgustingly postholed top to bottom from bozos on previous days. Some of them must...

Beta from Julie at Highland Center was that the trail was unlikely to be broken, and that proved to be correct. I broke 3 inches down low, and a foot up high. Took 4 hours to reach the summit, which was completely socked in and had visibility of ~30 feet. It appears that nobody has been on...

A beautiful day before the weekend predicted storms. Left the parking lot with JEM3 at 8:35, broke trail to the AT junction a hundred yards away, then it was smooth sailing on snowshoes until we passed the group ahead of us. A single hiker had preceded us (he left at 7 am) and had partly...

A group of 9 of us made this hike from the parking on Hurricane Mtn Road. Trail was clear until we hit the first ledges. The ice there was easily stepped over or around, but by 2400 feet elevation we decided to put on Microspikes, and we kept them on the rest of the way to the summit, and the...

we used snowshoes from the parking lot, and many others did as well, although we noted people with microspikes who seemed to be doing okay on the packed trail. the trail was well-covered with snow and there were no bony sections between parking and the summit of Pierce, nor were there any icy...

Knowing that Coreys Road is open to the parking lot, 3 of us drove over from NH to get these peaks. We scouted out Coreys Road the evening before, so we were primed to get on the trail at 6 am or so. The day proved to be fair and nearly windless, with a high temp of about +10 F or so. At the...

The hoards of people in the lot today and on the trail made us confident that the herd path to TT would be broken out and tamped down. We were surprised to find that wasn't so. A strong group of Marc and Steph, Carl, Al and me donned shells and started up the herd path around 9:30. Breaking 4...

The storm on January 11 dumped at least 15 inches on the area. Al, Carl and I set out at a leisurely 8 am from the Loj to hike these peaks, figuring that 3 days would be plenty of time for the route to be broken out. Boy were we wrong. Once we left the beaten path, we were on virgin snow. We...

Trail nicely broken out the whole way to summit. Snow unconsolidated, but getting sticky by the time we were heading down at noon. Equipment: snowshoes a must, no other traction needed

Trail snow-covered but bony for first mile or so. Had been broken out within past day or two, but when we got to ledges tracks stopped and we had to break out the remainder to summit. Snow was unconsolidated mid-shin deep, except deeper where blown in on upslopes. Current warm temps will...

Slippery Brook trail well packed out, Baldface Knob trail sees a huge amount of moose activity and is post-holed from that on lower part. Baldface Circle trail up South BF is a combo of ice and wind-blown snow. I used MSRs on the way up and Microspikes on the way down. Trail between the two...

Trail is hard-packed out, bare booted the whole way to the cone. Cone is icy, I used 10 point crampons, but saw others with Stabilicers and Microspikes. Piper trail also looked to be packed out, but only saw it at the junction with Champney Brook trail.

A NH 100 highest peak, easily accessible via snowmobile trail which itself can be reached by skiing or snowshoeing along the Balsam's XC trail, to the right of the entrance of the main ski lift. Just walk or ski along the chain link fence until you get to the XC trail. Then follow that (on the...

We knew the forecast was for challenging temps and winds, but 3 of us decided to go for this NH 100 peak anyway. Carl planned to do Howe peak, a NH 200, and when he found that we could drive in on FR 95 a mile or two past the gate, we changed our Rattle River plan to the Shelburne trail. FR 95...

FR 95 open a mile or two past gate and plowed. Parked in skidder lot, nobody working on 12/29 due to cold and wind. Trail unbroken, 4 inches above light non-supporting crust. Slow going, snowshoes whole way. 7 miles RT, just under 7 hours total time. No significant water crossings on this...

Trail to Ike was well-packed. Lot of people using microspikes, but snowshoes were better because the trail is not as hard as it is below Pierce. The summit cone has a number of bare spots, and the new short ladders and steps were easily negotiated with snowshoes. Summit cairn is a great...

Bill Dotchin led a group from the parking lot off 302 to the summits of Pierce & Eisenhower yesterday. Man, it was cold at the start: negative 11 F, but absolutely no wind. Start time a relaxed 9:10 am. I quickly trailed behind the main group, hooking up with Dave and Paul up to the summit of...

Marston Trail, Coe Trail, North Brother Trail and the bushwhack to Fort Mt are now broken out. Carl Cressey and DocRoss completed their Winter 67 New England Four Thousand Footers on North Brother at 09:45 on 7 March 2009, and their Winter New England 100 Highest at 16:00 on Mt Coe, the same day.

Al D and I spent 14 hours breaking out the Gale River and Garfield Ridge trails on 2/25/09 to bag these two NH 100 peaks. Lack of consolidation, and relatively warm temps made for heavy going, especially on the ridge. We left Beaver Brook outhouse and parking area off Rte 3 at 7:45; the first...

Broke out these trails with Al D to bag East and West Garfield Ridge peaks. Snow was knee to waist deep on the ridge. The warm weather over the next day or two should help consolidation.