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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks Kearsarge North Mountain, NH
Trails
Trails: Kearsarge North Trail
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: Only us 
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Ice - Blue, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment: Traction 
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes: None 
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes: Trail in fine shape 
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes: We had Ollie a Golden Retriever with us. He had difficulty with several areas. 
Bugs
Bugs:  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: I wore my brand new Kahtoola K-10s and Trudy the Hillsound Pros. We wore them the whole trail up and down. The ice was unrelenting, microspikes would not be advisable, ice was too hard for our poles to stick in. Ollie the dog could not do 3 sections so we bushwhacked around. At that last little cliff near the summit just before the trail bends right, we bushwhacked up around, turned out we were not the first and it was not bad at all, we kind of cut the corner on the trail, it's a good way to avoid that small cliff feature. We put up little "flags" so we see our bushwhacks on the descent. One curiosity, when we were starting to climb steeper about 1/2 mile from start there was a crashing in the trees up above the trail. We never heard a sound like that in years of hiking. At first we thought it was trees falling over, but the sound moved downhill, then back up again. It sounded like a dinosaur breaking through the trees, it was loud but we could see nothing, we were going to investigate but when the sound moved a good way downhill and then back up we knew we couldn't chase it. So we moved on. It was weird. Couldn't have been an avalanche there was no soft snow.  
Name
Name: David and Trudy 
E-Mail
E-Mail: cliffbay@aol.com 
Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2018-01-31 
Link
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