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Mt Cabot w/ York Pond Trail & Bunnell Notch Trail & Kilkenny Ridge Tr on 3/31/2012 Date of Hike: 3/31/2012 Trail Conditions: At lower elevation, snow is gone in many places and trail was somewhat muddy, but, still snow is hard packed on the ground at other locations. In the morning, at the...

Trail and Mountain names should go in the thread TITLE Date of Hike: 2/12/2012 Trail Conditions: Trail and Bushwhacking route is hard packed snow. There are some short exposed areas I had to break the trail/paths,(10-20 steps in each) as they are covered by new powder snows. Besides them, we...

Used Trail: Hancock Notch Tr, Cedar Brook Tr, Hancock Loop Tr Trail Conditions: Hancock Notch Tr: Very less snow. Center of trails are VERY ICY Cedar Brook Tr: 1 inches of packed snow. Very icy. Some of brook crossing area, ice is broken when someone stepped on. Thickness of ice is...

Used Trails: Avalon Tr, A-Z Tr, Mt Tom Spur, Willey Range Tr, Ethan Pond Tr Trail Conditions: Avalon Tr: Less snow, Icy A-Z Tr: 2-3 inches of snow, Under snow is ice Mt Tom Spur Tr: More than 3 inches of snow, ice at some ledges Willey Range Tr (From Tom toward Field): Mixed of...

Trails we used: Lincoln Woods Tr (2.6 mi) to Black Pond Tr (0.8 mi) to bushwhack (1.1 mi to avoid wide water crossings) to Lincoln Woods Tr(2.39 mi) to Owls Head Slide up Trail Conditions: Lincoln Woods/Black Pond Tr are very packed snow w/ ice. Buckwhack from Black Pond Tr wasn't bad either...

Trail Conditions: Jackson-Webster Trail is very wet and slushy, may be because of raining one day before. The group started hike with Microspikes almost all the way to summit. Water crossing wasn't difficult. Before treeline, we stopped, added layer. Changed microspikes to Crampons just in...

Parking Lot: Snow is not plowed until to the trailhead parking lot. Snow plowing stopped at the end of the home on Starr King Road. So We're supposed to park our cars at South side from Route 2 (opposite side from Trailhead parking lot), then walk from there. Trail Conditions: 2-4 inches of...

Trail Conditions: From Kanc, we used Greeley Pond Trail to Osceola Trail to reach E. Osceola then, Osceola. It was 7.6 RT hike. NOAA Weather forecast was all day cloudy with 40% chance of snow. But it turned out one of the best day to do Winter Hike. We saw clear sky all day long and there...

Trail conditions: Since Gale River Loop Road is closed, the total hiking distance to Garfield summit RT is 12.4 miles with additional 1.2 mi x 2 road hike. Snow accumulation on Gale River Loop Road is approx 2-3 inches, so it looked easy to walk, however, underneath of snow was ice and it was...

Date of Hike: 5/21/2011 Trail Conditions: On 5/21, W River Trail is closed due to muddy trail condition by AMR. The AMR Gatekeeper told us to go on E River Trail for 1 mile or so, then take bridge at right hand side to cross the river to hike to reach to W River Tr to reach to Lower Wolfjaw...

Giant and Rocky Ridge Peak from "Giant's Washbowl from Roaring Brook Tr" on 5/20/2011 Date of Hike: 5/20/2011 Trail Conditions: Some sections were muddy on Tr-50: Giant's Washbowl from Roaring Brook Trail, but, it was not so terrible. Hike-in on this trail is relatively easy because of a lot...

Date of Hike: 05/08/2011 Trail Conditions: Mt Hunger is one of most popular mountain in Worcester Range in Stowe/Waterbury in VT. Up to 29-3000 feet elevation, there was no snow. Most of the trail is dried except the area when brook in on top of the trail. After 29-3000 feet elevation, I...

Date of Hike: 04/17/2011 Trail Conditions: Carr Moutanin Trail (hike in & out): Trailhead was very muddy. No traction is needed. Once we started hiking, trail goes along with Clifford Brook. Around 2800 ft elevation point, we wore snowshoes to reach to the summit of Carr Mountain (3453 ft)...

Sandwich Dome/Jennings Pk/Noon Pk -Drakes Brk Tr(in) & Sandwich Mtn Tr(out) on 4/23 Date of Hike: 04/23/2011 Trail Conditions: Drake Brook Trail (hike in): In the morning, 9AM on 4/23, trailhead was covered by snow totally. I wanted to hike by Algonquin Trail which is challenging trail for...

Date of Hike: 05/01/2011 Trail Conditions: At the beginning from the trailhead, there is no longer snow and bare boots is fine for hike. I don't completely remember which elevation point I decided to wear Snowshoes, but, we started to make a lot of postholing, so we decided to wear Snowshoes...

Date of Hike: 04/30/2011 Trail Conditions: I led the hike to Big Slide via The Brothers from Garden Parking Lot in Keene. From the trailhead to up to approx. 3000 ft elevation, snow is almost all gone and I had pleasant hike. Via The Brothers, there are multiple ledges and minor rock...

Mt Colden (Trail: Mt Marcy via Hoevenberg Tr, Lake Arnold Tr & L. Morgan Porter Tr) Date of Hike: March 26 2011 Trail Conditions: Snow was well packed almost all the trails we used from Adirondak Loj to Mt Colden summit. At the very close to summit of Mt Colden area, there was no foot prints...

Date of Hike: March 27 2011 Trail Conditions: * Battell Trail - Snow is well packed and I only wore Microspikes and left Crampons and Snowshoes in the car. After hiking 2.0 Miles, I reached to Long Trail. No issue on this trail and car can go to the parking lot w/o any issue. * Long Trail...

Date of Hike: March 13 2011 Trail Condition: Majority area of Beaver Brook Trail is nicely packed snow. So I started to put on Microspikes. Just in case, we brought Snowshoes and Crampons, especially for ledges near the summit is steep and if it's icy, we thought we need to bring ice...