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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks Little Sugarloaf, Goose Pond, NH
Trails
Trails: Goose Pond Snowmobile Trail (Orange Trail), Elwell Trail
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Saturday, March 12, 2016
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: Plenty of parking at Elwell Trail trailhead. Road to parking area is almost completely clear, but parking area has a couple of inches of fast-melting ice/slush. Not an issue to drive up, with care. 
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Dry Trail, Wet Trail, Ice - Blue, Mud - Minor/Avoidable 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment:  
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes: Not an issue. 
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes: Blowdowns mentioned in posts from a few days earlier have been moved/removed. New small step-over blowdown on Elwell Trail just west of where it splits off of Orange Trail, headed for Little Sugarloaf. 
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes:  
Bugs
Bugs:  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: Came back yet again to run up these trails a few days later after doing them, hoping to find them barebootable.

They are now; light traction stayed in the pack.

Some thin ice on short sections of trail here and there, but for the most part the trails are clear -- and mostly dry, especially the ledges/open granite.

Short section of thin ice on Elwell Trail near parking area and near first water crossing 0.1 miles out from parking area -- very easy to walk around. Thin ice on short section of Orange Trail near parking area; easy to avoid. Most of the ice was on a few sections of Goose Pond Loop -- again, easy to avoid or rock hop.  
Name
Name: Pancks and Tesco Heaney 
E-Mail
E-Mail:  
Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2016-03-13 
Link
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