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Date of Hike: 3/12/16 Trails: Mount Kinsman and Kinsman Ridge Trail Conditions: The lower elevation section of the Mount Kinsman Trail (up to the Bald Peak spur trail) was pretty clear, with patchy ice in the morning and slippery mud in the afternoon, with no snow to be seen. The stream...

Date of Hike: 2/27/16 Trails: Pine Bend Brook and Mt Tripyramid Trails Conditions: Compact, and slick, snow. The whole trail is still snow covered, with a nice firm base. This makes for a pleasant walk at lower elevations, but makes it rather nerve-wracking on the steep sections, where...

Date of Hike: 1/2/16 Trails: Carter-Moriah Trail Conditions: Snow. There is a good, albeit thin, base of snow on the trail from start to finish. The trail is in great shape with no obstacles (someone has done a wonderful job of clearing blowdowns). Very little exposed ice. Special...

Date of Hike: 10/3/15 Trails: Franconia Notch Bike Path, Flume Slide, Franconia Ridge, and Liberty Spring Trails Conditions: The bike path is everything that a bike path should be: gentle and well-paved. The lower part of the Liberty Springs Trail is everything that an approach route should...

Date of Hike: 09/26/15 Trails: Dodge Cutoff, South Imp, North Carter, Carter-Moriah, Carter Dome and 19 Mile Brook Trail Trails Conditions: All trails are clear and mostly well-maintained. There are a few sections toward the top of the Imp Trail that are beginning to suffer from erosion...

North & South Hancock via Hancock Notch, Cedar Brook and Hancock Loop Trls – 4/25/15 Date of Hike: 4/25/15 Trails: Hancock Notch, Cedar Brook and Hancock Loop Trails Conditions: The very start of the Hancock Notch Trail is down to very patchy snow, but the snow depth becomes deeper the...

Hi all, I lost a lightweight blue sled (with a bright orange S-biner) somewhere on the Hancock Ridge Trail, most likely on the climb up South Hancock, on Saturday, April 25, 2015. Though it would be nice to recover it (you could contact me at jenglish one at worcester dot edu, with the one...

Date of Hike: 3/29/15 Trails: Mt. Tecumseh Trail Conditions: Firm, hard-packed snow allowing for bare-booting. No postholing, not even deep footprints, as long as you remained in the center of the trail. Stepping off-trail though (to let someone pass) left me thigh-deep in snow! The...

M & S Carter via Dodge, Imp, N Carter, Carter-Moriah, C Dome and 19 M Brk Trl-2/28/15 Date of Hike: 2/28/15 Trails: Dodge Cutoff, Imp, North Carter, Carter-Moriah, Carter Dome and 19 Mile Book Trails Conditions: All trails are pretty well broken out, but that does not mean that they are...

Date of Hike: 12/20/14 Trails: 19 Mile Brook, Wildcat Ridge and Polecat Ski Trails Conditions: The 19 Mile Brook Trail was a well packed highway all the way to the Wildcat Ridge Trail. At the junction we stopped and switched to snowshoes because it looked like there had not been any traffic...

Date of Hike: 5/3/14 Trails: Blueberry Ledge, Rollins and Dicey’s Mill Trails Conditions: The Blueberry Ledge Trails started off bone-dry, but snow started appearing around the upper staircases in patches and soon became monorail. Most of the tricky climbing spots are clear of snow. The...

Hale via Firewarden’s Trail Date of Hike: 3/29/14 Trails: bushwhack from Seven Dwarfs Motel, North Twin Trail, Firewarden’s Trail Conditions: Saturday was very warm so the snow was the consistency of mashed potatoes. I took an epic posthole (with snowshoes) when we were on the North Twin...

Madison via Valley Way and Osgood Trail – 3/18/14 Date of Hike: 3/18/14 Trails: Valley Way and Osgood Trail Conditions: The Valley Way up to just above the Watson Path junction is hard-packed. Above the junction the snow starts to get deeper and less packed, and around the Valley Way...

Moosilauke via Ravine Lodge Rd and Gorge Brook Trail – 3/9/14 Date of Hike: 3/9/14 Trails: Ravine Lodge Road and Gorge Brook Trail Conditions: Both the road and the trail have the makings of a spectacular monorail. So long as you stay on the path you have a wonderfully compacted and...

Date of Hike: 2/1/14 Trails: Falling Waters Trail, Franconia Ridge Trail, Greenleaf Trail and Old Bridle Path Conditions: Firm snow at the foot of Falling Waters trail with quite a lot of exposed ice by the falls, with some tricky spots to get up. Above the falls there was firm snow again up...

Osceola and East Osceola via Mt. Osceola Trail – 11/10/13 Date of Hike: 11/10/13 Trails: Mt. Osceola Trail Conditions: Tripoli Road had about 2 inches of snow on it. For the first 1/3 of the way up Osceola bare boots were fine, but soon ice layered over the big, sloped boulders made...

Hi all, I am traveling out west in July for a conference, and was able to secure a backcountry permit for a Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim hike! Now, I know that it's going to be super-hot (123 in the shade was what one poster posted), but beyond that I need some practical advice. I'm an...

Monroe, Ike and Pierce via Ammo Ravine, Crawford, Mts. Monroe & Ike Lp Trs - 1/13/13 Date of Hike: 1/13/13 Trails: Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail, Crawford Path, Mts. Monroe and Eisenhower Loop, and Webster Cliff Trail Conditions: Due to the high temperatures the trail were slushy, wet and slippery...

Date of Hike: 11/23/12 Trails: Hancock Notch, Cedar Brook and Hancock Loop Trails Conditions: All trails were fairly dry, with some rare patches of ice, and no snow to be found. Most of the ice was down low on the Hancock Notch Trail, but there were also a few patches on the last section of...

Date of Hike: 11/3/12 Trails: Mount Kinsman Trail and Kinsman Ridge Trail Conditions: Late fall conditions down below, with slightly muddy trails and fallen leaves covering ankle-biting rocks. Light snow and thin ice over slippery leaves up above. Too little snow/ice for microspikes, but...