RoySwkr said:
If you look in one of your old WMG, you will find that the distance from the old trailhead to the new is something like .9 miles, SD will be slightly farther.
I am in Thornton and for some strange reason my old WMGs are in Brookline. So I am not sure where the old trailhead is, nor where the old trail went.
My friends taught me a route to the N Twin trailhead that takes a snowmobile trail more or less south to Haystack Rd, which is used for final access. Today, on my way back, I found set of ski tracks that left Haystack Rd immediately north of the bridge that is just north of the trailhead. I was obviously curious and followed the tracks. They used an old logging road (quite wide) that was between Haystack Rd and the river, which it reached at the bridge near Little River Rd.
When I got home and plotted the track in MapSource I saw that it followed what appeared to be a trail. Since MapSource topos are derived from USGS maps the trail information is obviously old, which can be a feature in a case such as this.
I have plotted my data in
Google maps, and temporarily labeled the new, to me, route "Original N Twin trail". Is that correct?
The route I am familiar with (using the snowmobile trail) is about 1.2 miles from the turnaround (where we parked) to the trailhead. The new (to me) route is 0.9 miles. The walk along Haystack Rd. (where there is no designated parking) from RT. 3 is, according to the WMG, 2.5 miles.