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12/30/11 Trail Conditions: icy, bare in places. Changed during the course of the day as 1" of fluffy snow fell. Special Equipment Required: microspikes essential, full size crampons useful, poles useful Comments: bare booted to the major brook crossing, put on microspikes for the crossing...

Trail Conditions: Nineteen Mile Brook trail well packed, icy in places. Wildcat Ridge trail mostly packed down with small drifts in places. Couple blowdowns on ridge but not hard to get thru. Special Equipment Required: Crampons required on Wildcat Ridge trail. Snowshoes for descending the...

Trail Conditions: mostly packed snow, some loose snow from drifting. trail in good shape Special Equipment Required: crampons essential from Gem pool Comments: Barebooted to Gem pool. Used crampons to hut. One person used microspikes. Considerable ice near Lakes hut. One difficult snow ledge...

Trail Conditions: Zealand Road gated at Rt. 302 but plowed the entire length to Zealand trailhead courtesy of the logging company. Zealand trail drifted in places but well packed out by end of the day. Twinway to Zeacliff in good shape except for few drifted places. Used alternate crossing of...

Trail Conditions: lots of wet fallen leaves, no ice, numerous small stream crossings, 2 blowdowns - the first one about 40 minutes hiking from the trail head. We cleaned up most of it up but 2 limbs remain that a folding saw could take of. The second is 45 minutes further - minor - hand saw can...

June 27, 2009 Trail Conditions: Excellent. Trail has been well maintained - brushed and waterbars cleaned recently. Special Equipment Required: Poles useful. Rainwear essential Comments: Partly cloudy at start. Ridge in the clouds. Got caught in sudden thundershower on the summit with...

South Carter via 19 mile Brook, Carter Dome, and Carter-Moriah trails. Date of Hike: 3/1/09 Trail Conditions: 19 mile Brook Trail hard packed, Carter Dome trail mostly hard packed to Zeta Pass. Carter Moriah trail north not broken. Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes required for unpacked...

Mt. Hale via Hale Brook Trail Date of Hike: 2/28/09 Trail Conditions: Zealand road well packed, trail was well packed to the summit. Special Equipment Required: snowshoes required, poles useful. Comments: Long section across steep slope required careful foot placement. Clear blue sky when...

Date of Hike: 1/10/08 Trail Conditions: packed well for first mile with a couple inches of new snow on top. Drifted farther on trail requiring snowshoes. Stairs/ladders completely covered with powder snow. Very challenging to climb in this stretch. Trail well maintained with clear blazes...

Date of Hike: 12/29-30 Trail Conditions: 12/29 - thin crust over 8-20" of powder, broken out first .8 miles. All wet areas and crossing streams exposed. Lots of moose post holes. Numerous broken branches but no serious blowdowns. Could not cross RB stream at trail. Good crossing spot...

Date of Hike: February 9,10 Trail Conditions: 12" of new snow to break, faint blazing on Rocky Branch trail. Non-existent blazing on Isolation trail - difficult if not impossible to follow even with a GPS. Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes required, poles helpful. Compass and map if...

Date of Hike: 2/2/08 Trail Conditions: 3" of snow with an ice crust on top - this over top packed snow and ice. Trail hard to follow near the top in the shoulder. Special Equipment Required: snowshoes with crampons required. Poles helpful. Comments: Optional - Broke the trail to the summit...

January 18-20 Trail Conditions: Lincoln Woods trail well packed, Wilderness trail less packed. Several tricky stream crossings with sleds. Bondcliff trail: 4" of powder over hard packed snow, couple down trees to cross, two major stream crossings on Bondcliff trail Special Equipment...

One of the challenges of these modern technological times is keeping track of all those small electronic devices like GPS’s, digital cameras, and cell phones while hiking. Each has their value as well as limitations – some folks have come to rely on them too much as we’ve seen from accident...