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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks Little Sugarloaf, Sugarloaf, NH
Trails
Trails: Elwell Trail, road walk
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Friday, December 6, 2013
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: Plenty of parking at the trailhead parking area for the Elwell Trail, near Wellington State Park. Room for four or five cars at end of old Hebron Turnpike (Hebron Road) where it intersects Bear Mountain Road at the bend in the road. 
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Wet Trail, Wet/Slippery Rock, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Mud - Significant, Leaves - Significant/Slippery, Snow/Ice - Small Patches 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment:  
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes: Not an issue. 
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes: Trails are in good shape -- no blowdowns, minimal issues with erosion, etc. 
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes:  
Bugs
Bugs:  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: We spotted a car at the trailhead parking area for the Elwell Trail, and another at the parking area off of Bear Mountain Road, to do a quick traverse of the Sugarloaves via the Elwell Trail.

Normally, we'll drive up the old Hebron Turnpike (an eroded Class VI road at best) to an area just below where it intersects with the Elwell Trail, and park there. Today, though, we could not leave a car up on the old Hebron Turnpike: some recent clearing of land right near its intersection with the Elwell Trail has obliterated a good section of the road, turning it into an impassable, muddy morass. So, we ended the hike with a short road walk back to Bear Mountain Road and the car.

However, beginning about three or four tenths of a mile below (north) of this muddy/impassable area, the road appears to have been recently graded, so that it's a reasonable drive now with a passenger car for much of the way. (This road also accesses the trailhead for the Bear Mountain Trail, and is in good shape up to about that trailhead.)  
Name
Name: Pancks and Tesco Heaney 
E-Mail
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Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2013-12-06 
Link
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