Recent content by Ken MacGray

https://trailsnh.com/reports/Forest-Roads-Gates.php

The old cabin remnants on Sugarloaf are still there.

I've only seen one report of someone making the 19-mile round-trip to Magalloway. Better them than me. 😂

Yes, they were working on some of the trail projects we were keeping an eye on for the White Mountain Guide. They built the relocated Iron Mountain Trail, for example, and also worked on the Crawford Path project. I had heard some of this story previously but not the details mentioned in this...

I'm with you and am likely not going anywhere. The whole thing just sounds too people-ey!

I'm still seeing people asking if the roads to Magalloway are open. Hope no one drives all the way up there and is crushed by the sight of a closed gate.

Thanks for that update!

AFAIK, USFS still has plans to remove the damaged bridge over Rocky Branch, but it's unclear when it will happen. When we were working on the last White Mountain Guide, they told us it was going to be 2022 but to my knowledge the bridge is still there.

The Rocky Branch bridge was washed out during the Halloween storm of 2017.

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I was saying to a friend on a hike the other day that if there isn't going to be any more snow, we may as well just move onto spring and be done with it. Bring back the color. I'm fine with an early spring as I still have a lot of field work left to do for the next southern NH guide.

The road doesn't close and the parking at Mead Base is plowed.

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In my experience, I've seen Quinttown Rd. plowed up to the last house, but that's not always the case. It's not plowed up to the parking area for J/Kodak.

A public post on Facepage that's being updated as things change. I tried to link to it directly but VFTT didn't like that for some reason.