| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Sugarloaf, Birch Hill, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Forest Road 480, unknown roads/trails, bushwhacks |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Friday, July 21, 2017 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
i parked a short distance up from town hall road in albany on birch hill road where the gated forest road i started the hike on turned left. room to park by the gate. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail |
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 | Bugs: |
mosquitoes and small flies. |
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 | Comments: |
i walked the forest road, which passed behind a small farm then turned more towards the peak. at a large clearing/old log landing the road i should have continued on quickly turned up and to the left out of the clearing, but i missed it and continued at the far end on what was more of an old snowmobile trail. this soon turned off course and i bushwhacked up in open woods and occasionally thick young hardwoods. around 1100 feet i picked up an old overgrown road/trail that ran towards the peak then under its cone to the south. from there it was a short, slightly steep, bushwhack in good woods up the the recognized highpoint. some poking around yielded limited views to white ledge and chocorua. i bushwhacked back to the old road and decided to follow it down. generally good going with working drainage despite being overgrown. at a junction with a more used road i turned left and this brought me back to the clearing mentioned above and the forest road. once back to where i parked i walked up birch hill road to a boulder blocked road on the right and headed east to the peak on old skid roads. eventually i picked up an overgrown snowmobile trail that led up to the summit and it was a very short bushwhack to the recognized highpoint. i followed this trail all the way back out to birch hill road about 2 minutes farther up the road than where i had started the original bushwhack. |
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 | Name: |
bryan |
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 | E-Mail: |
bryancuddihee@yahoo.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2017-07-21 |
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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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