Date of Hike: 08/17/2020
Trail Conditions: Easy water crossings. Two downed trees after the junction of Smarts Brook Trail - one is an easy duck-under, the next will poke your eye out if you're...
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Date of Hike: 08/17/2020
Trail Conditions: Easy water crossings. Two downed trees after the junction of Smarts Brook Trail - one is an easy duck-under, the next will poke your eye out if you're...
Date of Hike: 08/09/2020
Trail Conditions: Dry trail; some spectacularly smelly mud near Whiteface Mountain. Lower parking lot and legal spaces filled before 9am. Upper lot full when I passed it...
Date of Hike: 7/26/2020
Trail Conditions: Muddy, wet trail
Special Equipment Required: Bug spray :eek:
Comments: Full trip report with photos here:...
Date of Hike: 03/22/2020
Trail Conditions: Immaculately maintained. Soft sand on the Dunes trail :) no ice, no snow, no water crossings. No downed trees.
Special Equipment Required: You may...
peakbagger - you live there. That’s very different. Most of the cars at most trailheads don’t have NH plates, that’s all.
Thanks for understanding my meaning, Richard. This is a hard time for all...
Just please please be mindful of the situation we're in -- it's not bad yet in NH, VT or Maine, but at least 2 doctors here in MA have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and many more will follow. We're...
Date of Hike: 03/14/20
Trail Conditions: Downed trees, fields of loose ice chunks (on WRT), hard crust, some glaze ice. We lost the trail between Wildcat B and A and decided to turn around.
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Date of Hike: 02/16/2020
Trail Conditions: Hard Packed Snow (though at least 3' less than this time last year!) Liberty Springs Trail parking lot is plowed and easily passable.
Special...
Date of Hike: 2/9/20
Trail Conditions: Nineteen Mile Brook Trail: Well broken all the way to and from the hut. All crossings easy, some bridged. Wildcat River Trail: Lightly used, deep powder.
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Date of Hike: 02/02/2020
Trail Conditions: Please enter, specific words to describe the current trail conditions. Hard packed snow, extremely icy. Glaze ice on summit. Deep postholes for the...
Date of Hike: 01/19/2020
Trail Conditions: Deep powder with sections of glaze ice. Well broken by the time we left.
Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes - essential then, probably useful now;...
Date of Hike: 01/01/2020 - 01/02/2020
Trail Conditions: Packed snow, bridged water crossings, one downed tree between Zeacliff and Zealand that is difficult to get over if you're short
Special...
Date of Hike: 12/22/2019
Trail Conditions: Hard-packed snow, some deteriorating snow bridges
Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes - useful, crampons - useful, microspikes - essential
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Katahdin, Baxter Peak and Hamlin Peak, via Cathedral Trail, Hamlin Ridge Trail
Trail and Mountain names should be posted in thread Title
Date of Hike: 10/12/19 - 10/14/19
Trail Conditions: Some downed trees on Northwest Basin Trail
Special Equipment Required: N/A - no...
Date of Hike: 10/5/2019
Trail Conditions: Ice - easily avoided. Easy water crossings.
Special Equipment Required: N/A
Comments: Trip Report with photos:...
Date of Hike: 9/21/19 - 9/23/19
Trail Conditions: Very easy water crossings even on Wild River Trail and Moriah Brook Trail; some downed trees on Wild River Trail and Moriah Brook Trail. Lightly...
What relevance does "chunky" have here? It's evidently so important that it's the first thing you listed about them :confused:
Date of Hike: September 13, 2019 - September 15, 2019
Trail Conditions: Dry, wet rock, easy water crossings
Special Equipment Required: N/A
Comments: Trail report with pictures:...
Date of Hike: 11/24/2018
Trail Conditions: Packed snow with a couple of inches of unconsolidated powder in spots. Mashed potato snow. You'll want snowshoes after the junction with the Carriage...
Date of Hike: 11/18/2018
Trail Conditions: Well-packed snow. Snow bridges over water crossings are solid.
Special Equipment Required: Microspikes - essential; snowshoes - useful
Comments:...
Trail and Mountain names should be posted in thread Title
Date of Hike: 10/16/2018 - 10/17/2018
Trail Conditions: Difficult water crossings, downed trees, indistinct trail, high water in boggy...
Date of Hike: 9/29/2018 - 9/30/2018
Trail Conditions: Please enter, specific words to describe the current trail conditions. Muddy, wet, 1 difficult water crossing
Special Equipment Required:...
For those who live in MA, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is showing Free Solo! I just saw it. Really, really well done - highly recommended.
Oh man, just the thought of that experience is giving me chills! I hope you can get your pictures converted to a digital format. I'd love to see them. My only regret is that we didn't have time to go...
Thank you so much Billy! I hiked up with all my water too -- didn't mention it in the trip report, but somebody behind us on the cables left his water at the base and started cramping halfway up....