Recent content by Sable

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 not looking. Two brief patches of mud on Sandwich Mountain Trail. Access notes - I was only the...

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 on my way to Piper Mountain/Whiteface Mountain at about 10. Special Equipment Required: None...

Date of Hike: 7/26/2020 Trail Conditions: Muddy, wet trail Special Equipment Required: Bug spray :eek: Comments: Full trip report with photos here: https://wanderwitnesswonder.wordpress.com/2020/07/27/carr-mountain-hike/ Your name: Sable

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 wish you could wear snowshoes on portions of the dunes O_O Comments: Trip report and photos here...

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 of us. I just want to limit my impact as much as possible.

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 going to have a reduced healthcare workforce. We don't have nearly enough beds, let alone emergency...

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. Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes - essential, light traction - useful (probably would've been...

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 Equipment Required: Microspikes - essential Comments: Full trip report with photos here...

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. Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes - useful, microspikes - essential Comments: My coldest...

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 ~0.75-1 mile closest to the summit. Special Equipment Required: Microspikes - essential Comments: Full...

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; microspikes - essential Comments: My partner forgot snowshoes in the car we spotted at the first...

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 Equipment Required: Snowshoes - essential, Microspikes - essential Comments: Full trip report with...

Date of Hike: 12/22/2019 Trail Conditions: Hard-packed snow, some deteriorating snow bridges Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes - useful, crampons - useful, microspikes - essential Comments: Trip report and photos here...

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 ice at all, yet Comments: Trip report and photos here...

Date of Hike: 10/5/2019 Trail Conditions: Ice - easily avoided. Easy water crossings. Special Equipment Required: N/A Comments: Trip Report with photos: https://wanderwitnesswonder.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/same-mountain-new-approach/ Your name: Sable