| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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None, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Welton Falls Trail (South) |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Sunday, November 4, 2018 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
A high-clearance vehicle can drive to the top of Gove Road, but then there is the half mile of clearcut up to the ridge. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail, Wet Trail, Wet/Slippery Rock, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Significant, Leaves - Significant/Slippery |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
No worries if you can leap across skidder tracks 3'wide and frog around on the odd tussock of grass beside deep narrow holes. The route is rather swampy now that natural drainage is changed. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
This trail was relocated in September 1997 from earlier logging, but that route is now quite obliterated, with no trace of the former trail through bands of intact woods which are gone. The 2015-2018 clearcut is a half mile long below the ridge where Elwell Trail runs, and the skidder trails are brook beds. Raspberries and saplings are growing pretty thickly where they can on the soil above the ruts. |
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 | Comments: |
Welton Falls (south)
This trail never had much traffic, and it would take an enormous number of hours over many years to build a new trail through the clearcuts. There are too many popular trails in desperate need of tending and fixtures to justify the effort on a trail hardly anyone used when it was a pleasant walk in the woods.
With that said, if bushwhacking through raspberries is to your taste, here's your paradise. |
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 | Name: |
Creag nan drochaid |
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 | E-Mail: |
crgsnbrn@yahoo.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2018-11-05 |
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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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