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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...

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

Date of Hike: 9/21/19 - 9/23/19 Trail Conditions: Very easy water crossings even on Wild River Trail and Moriah Brook Trail; some downed trees on Wild River Trail and Moriah Brook Trail. Lightly blazed and overgrown as expected. You can always tell where you should be going if you're paying...

Date of Hike: September 13, 2019 - September 15, 2019 Trail Conditions: Dry, wet rock, easy water crossings Special Equipment Required: N/A Comments: Trail report with pictures: https://wanderwitnesswonder.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/northbound-presidential-traverse/ Your name: Sable

Date of Hike: 11/24/2018 Trail Conditions: Packed snow with a couple of inches of unconsolidated powder in spots. Mashed potato snow. You'll want snowshoes after the junction with the Carriage trail. Special Equipment Required: Microspikes - essential; snowshoes - recommended Comments...

Date of Hike: 11/18/2018 Trail Conditions: Well-packed snow. Snow bridges over water crossings are solid. Special Equipment Required: Microspikes - essential; snowshoes - useful Comments: Full trip report with pictures here...

Trail and Mountain names should be posted in thread Title Date of Hike: 10/16/2018 - 10/17/2018 Trail Conditions: Difficult water crossings, downed trees, indistinct trail, high water in boggy areas Special Equipment Required: Gaiters :eek: Comments: Full trip report with pictures here

Date of Hike: 9/29/2018 - 9/30/2018 Trail Conditions: Please enter, specific words to describe the current trail conditions. Muddy, wet, 1 difficult water crossing Special Equipment Required: N/A Comments: Beautiful trail, really well maintained. Gorgeous views and ridgeline walking. Full...

Half Dome is on just about every hiker's and backpacker's bucket list. It's so different from our New England trails (so many switchbacks! so few rocks! but wait, how am I supposed to hike on sand with a 35-pound pack???) I got to take a quick break from my beloved White Mountains and backpack...