Amicus
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Ossipee Rim Walk - a Start, with Trail Bandit and Friends (7/26/08)
The Trail Bandit
Trail Bandit (Bob) is best known to the world at large though his efforts over recent decades to reopen many wonderful trails in St. John in the USVI - the hiking Mecca of the Caribbean. He spends more of his time in central NH, however, and over the past decade has done great work, often assisted by his hiking friend Mary, in reopening lost trails around the Ossipee Ring Dike, a geological wonder that first caught his eye from the air, as he piloted his plane. He envisages a Rim Walk that would trace the perimeter - some 25-30 miles that would be unique in the Northeast.
Today, Bob, Mary, rocket21 and I followed a roughly counterclockwise route that encompassed Sentinel, Canaan (a 'whack), Flagg, Shaw and Black Snoot, before returning to Canaan Road by the Thunderbird Trail. This includes much of the SE quadrant of the Rim.
Land of Canaan
We hiked to Sentinel from Terrace Pines in Ossipee, then followed Bob and Mary's newly reopened link trail from there to the midpoint of the Ledges Trail from Camp MV - Bob described this in a Trip Report on Rocks on Top a week or two ago. From the upper half of The Ledges Trail ("Canaan Mtn. Tr." on some maps), we 'whacked NE from the northernmost hairpin to the summit of Canaan - an easy jaunt of 300 vertical feet through open woods. Canaan is on the prestigious NH2K List, but someone must have swiped the canister. From there, we 'whacked NNW to a point on the Flagg Tr. just east of its ledges - rockier and thicker than our 'whack up from the SE.
The Thunderbird
Many of us appreciate a person or thing that gets right to the point, and the Thunderbird Trail does that. It knows you want to get from the summit of Shaw to your house or car to the SE and it takes you there, in a straight line. There aren't distant panoramas, but there is a wonderful 30-foot waterfall on Canaan Brook, running at well well above late July standards, from the recent deluges.
I look forward to more such. Onward the Rim! A few photos are here.
The Trail Bandit
Trail Bandit (Bob) is best known to the world at large though his efforts over recent decades to reopen many wonderful trails in St. John in the USVI - the hiking Mecca of the Caribbean. He spends more of his time in central NH, however, and over the past decade has done great work, often assisted by his hiking friend Mary, in reopening lost trails around the Ossipee Ring Dike, a geological wonder that first caught his eye from the air, as he piloted his plane. He envisages a Rim Walk that would trace the perimeter - some 25-30 miles that would be unique in the Northeast.
Today, Bob, Mary, rocket21 and I followed a roughly counterclockwise route that encompassed Sentinel, Canaan (a 'whack), Flagg, Shaw and Black Snoot, before returning to Canaan Road by the Thunderbird Trail. This includes much of the SE quadrant of the Rim.
Land of Canaan
We hiked to Sentinel from Terrace Pines in Ossipee, then followed Bob and Mary's newly reopened link trail from there to the midpoint of the Ledges Trail from Camp MV - Bob described this in a Trip Report on Rocks on Top a week or two ago. From the upper half of The Ledges Trail ("Canaan Mtn. Tr." on some maps), we 'whacked NE from the northernmost hairpin to the summit of Canaan - an easy jaunt of 300 vertical feet through open woods. Canaan is on the prestigious NH2K List, but someone must have swiped the canister. From there, we 'whacked NNW to a point on the Flagg Tr. just east of its ledges - rockier and thicker than our 'whack up from the SE.
The Thunderbird
Many of us appreciate a person or thing that gets right to the point, and the Thunderbird Trail does that. It knows you want to get from the summit of Shaw to your house or car to the SE and it takes you there, in a straight line. There aren't distant panoramas, but there is a wonderful 30-foot waterfall on Canaan Brook, running at well well above late July standards, from the recent deluges.
I look forward to more such. Onward the Rim! A few photos are here.
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