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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks Mt. Whiteface, Mt. Passaconaway, NH
Trails
Trails: Blueberry Ledge Trail, Rollins Trail, Dicey's Mill Trail
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Saturday, February 9, 2019
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: Ferncroft parking lot plowed but very icy/rutted, navigable with my SUV but would be more cautious with a low clearance vehicle due to the ruts. Room for approx 12-15 cars parked in "regular" (non-overflow) fashion. 
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Ice - Blue, Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Drifts, Snow/Ice - Postholes 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment: Snowshoes, Light Traction 
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes: Main crossing on Dicey's Mill (with the log) was pretty standard, either walk across the log or find rocks to hop up/down stream. 
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes: Some duckunder blowdowns here and there (from memory, mainly on Dicey's up to Passaconaway summit), all relatively minor.  
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes: didn't see any but would imagine they would've been fine, possible extra caution taken on ledges up Whiteface which were iced over. 
Bugs
Bugs: nope 
Lost and Found
Lost and Found: nada 
 
Comments
Comments: Nice day for a clockwise loop hike up Whiteface, over Rollins Tr, out/back to Passaconaway, then descent on Dicey's. Probably 10 other folks on the trails this day, and as usual everyone we ran into was grinning ear to ear. Took us 7 hours flat with a good 30-40 mins of stops. Windy (20mph peak NW wind measured at northerly outlook on Passaconaway) and cool at 10-12 deg F but more favorable than the Mountain Forecast. Trails were generally hardpacked, and I wore micros at the lower parts of both Blueberry Ridge and Dicey's, and snowshoes for the higher els and Rollins cross. My hiking partner had both tractions in his pack but opted to bareboot the entire loop (go figure - he did slip/slide a bit on the steeps but otherwise did fine), so really it was whatever you were comfortable with. Most other hikers we saw had spikes on, with snowshoes in the pack, and we did see other fresh snowshoe tracks. Some drifting of up to a foot on Rollins between the peaks. Trench/path was mostly followable throughout, although more difficult to detect on Rollins; stray off the path by a foot or two and you were quickly knee/waist high and intimate with the snow.  
Name
Name: Eric H 
E-Mail
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Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2019-02-10 
Link
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtrqgpOHj2h/ 
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