We visited the three yesterday with perfect weather conditions. Last mile to Bradley was the worse section of our loop (Panther, Couch and Santa at the end of the day).The Bradley Pond beaver crossing offers a couple of shaky logs floating in 5-foot deep water. As there was an extremely easy crossing a few yards below/before where drainage is very narrow immediately down the new beaver dam, we opted for that solution not wanting to risk a dive. Where we crossed the woods appear tight but they are for only 5 feet, after wards it is very open and an immediate right turn gets you to the left of a very erratic within 30 seconds and then in another 15 seconds once is at the regular crossing.
The best section of the herdpaths is the one from Couch swamp to Couch summit, it was dry and nice footing. New illegal summit sign is as ugly as sin, whoever put that up has no respect for the mountains for installing such a tacky board.
