Has anyone hiked the Franconia Brook Trail on the south side of Garfield Ridge Trail and the Twin Brook Trail up to the hut? I wondered if stream crossings were passable after all the wetness. Also we plan to hike up to Galehead hut via Gale River Trail and understand there is a bridge out on the trail. How deep is the water?
trail conditions on Franconia Brook T and Twin Brook Trails?
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PatnJane said:
As you can see from the 30-day East Branch hydrograph, levels were coming down nicely, but then popped up again today. But, usually the trib streams are rock hoppable when the EBH is below 300 or 400 cfs. But, notice how much above the 15-year daily medians the levels have been the past month!
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?c...format=gif_default&period=30&site_no=01074520
DougPaul
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The first stream crossing on the Gale River trail is fairly close to the trailhead. If it is impassable, you can take the Garfield Tr to the ridge. (The road bridges on the west end of the road to the trailheads are out--use the eastern entrance.)
There are 3 stream crossings on the Garfield trail. The first is small. The second two can be bypassed with short bushwacks and some snowmobile bridges. Just bushwack parallel to the stream until you reach the E-W snowmobile trail, cross 2 bridges (the Garfield trail crosses the snowmobile trail between the bridges) and bushwack parallel to the stream until you come back to the trail.
There has been some erosion damage to the Garfield trail, but it should still be passable.
Doug
There are 3 stream crossings on the Garfield trail. The first is small. The second two can be bypassed with short bushwacks and some snowmobile bridges. Just bushwack parallel to the stream until you reach the E-W snowmobile trail, cross 2 bridges (the Garfield trail crosses the snowmobile trail between the bridges) and bushwack parallel to the stream until you come back to the trail.
There has been some erosion damage to the Garfield trail, but it should still be passable.
Doug
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The first crossing on Gale River trail is actually 1.7 (easy) miles from the trailhead, so it would add an hour or so to go, check it out, decide against it, and go back to the Garfield trail. If it's a little too high to cross (can't say, as I haven't been there this week), there are sometimes options a bit downstream.
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