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Got out to enjoy the warm weather with a hike up Jennings Peak on Sunday. We went up Drakes Brook and down Sandwich Mtn. Water crossings were all fine. Drakes Brook was clear with a little mud until about halfway between the ski trail and the ridge. Once the trail stops having patchy ice blobs...

Trails: Crawford Path, Webster Cliff Trail, Webster-Jackson Trail Conditions: We started the day in the clouds, but had everything clear just as we were starting up the Eisenhower Loop. Very little wind and reasonably warm on the ridge today. The Crawford Path is well packed and barebootable...

Date of Hike: 1/9/2016 Conditions: Cul-de-sac wasn't plowed, but was tracked enough to be drivable. Herd path shortcut to the main trail, and the main Stony Brook Trail all the way to the ridge were hard packed snow. Carter-Moriah to the summit had some small drifts, but even these were only a...

Date: Jan 2, 2016 Conditions: Used an uphill access pass to take Polecat to the top of the ski area. This was a little challenging, as trails crowded with downhill skiers and boarders meant you had to make sure others saw you. Once on the ridge trail, things were in great shape, and I saw about...

Took advantage of yesterday's unexpectedly nice weather to hike Cabot. We parked at the fishery trailhead and were a little worried about the gate locking us in. Other hikers we encountered informed us that the Forest Service was trying something new on weekends, and that the gate would be...

First, a huge thanks to winnie and company for tracking out the Marston Trail last weekend. Their effort is much appreciated and definitely contributed to our success on Saturday. Parking and road conditions were as described in winnie's report. No plowing/ice issues on the Golden Road and...

Conditions: Six of us headed up Galehead yesterday. The small parking lots for the Gale River Loop Road along Rt 3 were plowed in, so we headed to the Beaver Brook parking lot and used the winter trails to access the Loop Road. Even though the Gale River Trail had been broken in the last week...

Trail conditions: Sawyer River Road was groomed and made for a quick ski to the trailhead. Signal Ridge is fully packed out to the summit, though a little icy in spots between the road and the beginning of the real uphill hiking. The stream crossing at Carrigain Brook is running water, but is...

Snuck in a quick trip up Isolation before the rain/ice mess set in this afternoon. We arrived at the Rocky Branch parking lot at 8am to find it surprisingly full of cars with no people in sight. As we worked our way up the trail, we finally pieced together that we weren't the only ones with the...

We headed out to attempt a full traverse of the Bigelows, from east to west. Nothing was tracked out at all, so we had our work cut out for us. From East Flagstaff Road to Safford Notch along Little Bigelow we found ~6 inches of light snow over rocks, roots, and a few patches of ice. This was...

Conditions: We headed up into the Ammonoosuc Ravine drainage for some ice climbing yesterday. After topping out of the primary drainage, we hiked the Westside Trail to the Crawford Path and down Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail to the Cog base station. Westside and Crawford Path had enough snow and ice...

Hiked the Bonds and Zealand thru hike today (16 Nov). Lincoln Woods and the old Wilderness Trail were mostly frozen dirt with an occasional dusting of snow. A few blow downs on the Wilderness Trail were at ankle or knee level but were easy to leap over. Snow accumulation slowly increased going...

Trails: snowshoe up the perimeter of Sugarloaf resort, Sugarloaf Side Trail to the AT, return the way we came Trail Conditions: The top of Sugarloaf has been scoured pretty well. It's a mix of rock, windblown hardpack, and ice. Finding the start of the Sugarloaf Side Trail was a bit of a...