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Peaks
Peaks East Kennebago, ME
Trails
Trails: Logging road, bushwhack
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Thursday, February 7, 2013
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: Found the one vehicle wide cut in the snow berm separating the gravel pit you drive through from the continuing logging road blocked by a large mechanical shovel....deliberate?  
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Ice - Blue 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment: Light Traction 
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes:  
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes:  
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes:  
Bugs
Bugs:  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: Nighttime hike to beat the incoming storm. Started at 7pm. The frozen snow berm blocking the logging road was high and steep enough that we didn't attempt to get our vehicle over it, given the hour and 4F temperature, so we walked from there, darkness and faded memories contributing to a few wrong turns. The road was sledded flat with packed powder over ice. We wore microspikes past the summer road end until the road narrows to a track, then switched to snowshoes as the moose had really chewed up the track. Kept snowshoes on until returning to the summer road end. Picked up previous party's snowshoe track remnants here and there on the boundary swath and again part way up the 'whack up the fall line taking us directly to the canister, or would have if we hadn't deviated from them when we first reached the summit plateau.  
Name
Name: ThinMan 
E-Mail
E-Mail: twcaldwell@comcast.net 
Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2013-02-08 
Link
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