| 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: |
Thursday, February 18, 2016 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Elwell Trail trailhead is packed ice and frozen snow -- do-able in regular passenger vehicle with care. (Snow tires help quite a bit.) |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Trace/Minimal Depth, Ice - Blue, Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Ice - Breakable Crust, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Wet/Sticky, Snow/Ice - Postholes |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Light Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
Not an issue. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
The main reason for posting this report: large (~16-inch diameter) softwood blowdown on Pond Loop, at southern end about 50 yards were it connects to the Orange Trail, on sideslope ledge. Blowdown can be stepped over, but some of it forces short re-route. |
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 | Comments: |
Trails are in better shape than we anticipated, given the recent ups and downs with temperatures, the rain, etc. Nice hardpack and ice for almost the entire way, with a few short bare sections and then a few sections of crust on frozen snow -- meant we could keep light traction on and move quickly without having to pick our way over rocks, etc. Some fine sections of blue ice, too -- always a treat.
Goose Pond (completely frozen) and Newfound Lake (mostly frozen) looked like glass with the bare ice and excellent reflection of yesterday's bright blue sky. |
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 | Name: |
Pancks and Tesco Heaney |
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| Date Submitted: |
2016-02-19 |
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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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