| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Little Sugarloaf, Goose Pond, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Goose Pond Snowmobile Trail (Orange Trail), Pond Loop Trail, Elwell Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Friday, March 18, 2016 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Plenty of parking at Elwell Trail trailhead. Road to parking area is clear, but parking area has an inch of fast-melting ice/slush near trailhead, easily avoided. Small ice berm at bottom of access road, where it connects to main road, not an issue to drive up. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail, Wet Trail, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Snow/Ice - Small Patches |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
Not an issue. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Small step-over blowdown on Elwell Trail just west of where it splits off of Orange Trail, headed for Little Sugarloaf. Also, recent step-over blowdown on southern end of Goose Pond Loop. |
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 | Comments: |
Came back yet again to run up these trails a week after doing them, hoping to find them snow-free and ice-free.
They are now, except for four or five very small (one or two feet in length) patches of ice/snow that are easily avoidable.
There's also a short section of thin ice in Elwell Trail parking area, easy to avoid.
Other than a few short patches of mud and wet leaves, the trails are completely dry, including the ledges.
Goose Pond is a few days from being ice-free, as well.
NOTE: for the past couple of months, a piece of cord has been strung across the Goose Pond Loop near the southeastern edge, where the pond empties into a brook, to a point across the brook. The cord has sagged enough over the past few weeks such that it's now at about neck height for someone six feet tall -- be careful not to garrote yourself flying around that corner of trail. (Not sure why the cord is there in the first place.) |
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 | Name: |
Pancks and Tesco Heaney |
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| Date Submitted: |
2016-03-19 |
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 | Link: |
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Disclaimer: Reports are not verified - conditions may vary. Use at own risk. Always be prepared when hiking. Observe all signs. Trail conditions reports are not substitutes for weather reports or common sense. |
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