| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Tenney Mountain, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Ski trails, bushwhack, wind tower road, bushwhack, ski trails |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Sunday, August 28, 2016 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Parked in ski area parking lot |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail, Wet Trail |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
streams and soggy areas dry |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Low to Mid ski trails a few appeared to have been mowed. |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
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 | Bugs: |
none |
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 | Lost and Found: |
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 | Comments: |
Tenney Mountain (Groton's highpoint), Tenney South Knob (Hebron's highpoint)
I have skied and hiked Tenney Mountain before I began collecting town highpoints so I returned today to collect the Hebron's highpoint. From the parking lot I hiked up a service road beginning from the right side of the ski lodge. I soon decided to cross under the chairlift and hike on the ski trails on the south side of the slopes. I from mowed areas to high grasses and herd paths I headed boldly up. I sure jumped when I startled a resting big bull moose. He had been lying down in the high grass and when I got near he made quite a racket scampering up to his feet and then he looked at me and just slowly walked a big up hill and then slipped into the woods--enough time that I was able to get my phone out of my pack to take a photo!
Nearing the summit of the ski area I decided to visit that radio antenna off the south side of Morning Glory and then I came up with this great idea that I should start my bushwhack from here to avoid the wind turbine clear cuts. Those little drainages between there and the south knobs are rugged deep and ledgy, I had to work to get around them. Of course I didn't end up missing the clear cuts I didn't realize they went so far south. Prickers, stumps and sticks did their best to try my patience. Once across and and back into the woods I found good open woods and small rock ledge faces. I crossed red blazed boundary which I believe has something to do with the wind farm. I visited two bumps, nigh contour lines on my map, the obvious south knob and then a bit north and west a second bump that appears on my map to be on the townline. The south knob does have one bump that is clearly higher with a ledge ridge about the same elevaiton closeby. Onto the second I did find some older flagging perhaps a town line but well off the highpoint of the knob appearing on the townline on my map. All the bumps are in good open woods and fun to visit, no vista from the bumps in the woods.
From the last bump I visited I whacked to the nearby wind turbine and walked the road north to the next turbine where the road deadends. There I whacked up east and found a herd path that led right up near the highpoint of Tenney Mountain. I continued to be disappointed with the hazy view, it still had not cleared. The short whack to the large communications tower didn't seem so bad after all the wading in grass and bushes I had done on the way up.
On the way down I stayed on the north side of the slopes using work roads and mowed ski trails it was easy going back to the lodge's parking lot. Even more exciting than seeing the bull moose was that I saw a Monarch Butterfly. I didn't see a single one last fall. The butterfly fluttered down the ski trail and let me watch it a few good minutes. Tenney is a lovely mountain. |
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 | Name: |
Nordic Gal, bryan |
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 | E-Mail: |
amybike@gmail.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2016-08-28 |
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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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