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SherpaTom

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A small group of us are planning to hike Owlshead and hopefully bag #47(W4K) on Saturday. We have hiked the Black Pond bushwack a few years ago (October) but have no idea where the Brutus bushwack begins. From all trail reports, it appears obvious enough as no one seems to go up the slide during the winter. Does anyone have a good GPS track on this or a good direction point from where we cut off to the BB?

Also, it appears all has been broken out fairly well with last trip reports from 1/15 & 1/16 (NETC) advising light traction and crampons useful up the BB. No one has suggested snowshoes but unsure if there was significant snow amounts this past week. Anyone up there since last week or planning to hike on Saturday?

Greatly appreciate any info.
 
You are the man, I'll send this over to my buddy who maintains the expensive GPS and it should work out. Thanks.
 
A small group of us are planning to hike Owlshead and hopefully bag #47(W4K) on Saturday. We have hiked the Black Pond bushwack a few years ago (October) but have no idea where the Brutus bushwack begins. From all trail reports, it appears obvious enough as no one seems to go up the slide during the winter. Does anyone have a good GPS track on this or a good direction point from where we cut off to the BB?

Also, it appears all has been broken out fairly well with last trip reports from 1/15 & 1/16 (NETC) advising light traction and crampons useful up the BB. No one has suggested snowshoes but unsure if there was significant snow amounts this past week. Anyone up there since last week or planning to hike on Saturday?

Greatly appreciate any info.

We just rebroke that all out last week and the slide too. Youll have no problems finding it.
 
We just hiked Owl's Head today, Fri. 1.22.16. At the start of the Brutus Bushwhack, the broken trail only leads that way - sharp right turn. No evidence that anyone has been to the entrance of the trail to the slide since before the last round of snow. Further into the bushwhack, there are a few different variations broken out, but they all eventually merge and lead to Brutus Rock. From there, there is one track up to the summit. Should be reasonably well broken out with three of us going up there and back.

We used light traction from the start through the Black Pond Bushwhack. After that, we used snowshoes, we didn't use crampons or Hillsound Trail Pros. Snowshoes definitely helpful on the ridge, where there were drifts between the old summit and new summit.
 
Thanks for all the info...we hiked yesterday and all trails broken out beautifully. We bare booted to Brutus and then used micros as traction needed on the incline; too lazy to take them off so hiked out with them. Great day, until the ride back to Mass. Tim, great to see you on the trail.
 
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