| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Black Cap, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Black Cap Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Hurricane Mountain Road is 'winter-gated' for the season. So, reaching the trailhead involves walking the road to the Black Cap trailhead, or hiking the mountain bike trail known as the Red Tail Trail.
A little over a tenth of a mile WEST of the road gate, there is limited parking at a small lot off the SOUTH side of Hurricane Mountain Road. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
One huge downed-tree about 0.2 mile from trailhead on Hurricane Mountain Road. HOWEVER, there's an easy workaround. |
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 | Comments: |
To reach Black Cap, I snowshoed up Hurricane Mountain Road to the trailhead for the Black Cap Trail which I followed to the summit of Black Cap. Hurricane Mountain Road had a mixture of ski tracks, snowshoe tracks, and yes some posthole tracks from bare-booters. The Black Cap Trail had no post-holing and was broken out with a combination of ski tracks and snowshoe tracks for the first 0.8 mile, and then just snowshoe tracks for the last 0.3 mile.
(Just as an aside, I had considered using the Red Tail Trail to make this into a loop hike, but saw no evidence of any hiker traffic on that trail, and so opted to forego that option.)
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 | Name: |
1HappyHiker |
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 | E-Mail: |
randonneur8 at yahoo dot com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2018-12-06 |
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 | Link: |
 https://www.facebook.com/1HappyHikerNH/posts/10214354372387336 |
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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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