| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Monument 493 Peak (Greeley Brook Peak) , NH |
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 | Trails: |
Bushwhack, roads, woods roads, herd path |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
We drove Indian Stream Rd. in from rt. 3 in Pittsburg 18 ½ miles and parked at an un-named road on the left. Within a few hundred yard or so the bridge is washed out. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Wet Trail, Wet/Slippery Rock, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Mud - Significant |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
walked across the shin deep, 20-foot-wide stream |
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 | Lost and Found: |
lost my hiking poles. I think i left the at the parking spot or in the bed of my truck |
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 | Comments: |
From our parking spot we hike to the washed-out bridge and walked across the shin deep, 20-foot-wide stream and continued on this road for its end. From this point we picked up a herd path that continued in the same direction (northwest) soon finding a moose bone.
The herd path petered out as we just started bushwhacking in mixed woods towards the col on the US / Canadian border swarth that’s between our destination Monument 493 Peak (Greeley Brook Peak) and an unknown named summit to north. Once on the border swarth we turned south following it for a ½ mile or so soon hitting the recognized high point.
After signing in rather that following our footsteps back, we jumped off the summit southeast in nicer woods heading towns that woods road we came in on. The going was good until the last ¼ mile or so as we hit a swamp area. We push through that and jumped back on that herd path we came up on and found the remaining moose skeleton. Our 2nd of the day, we had found another on Cowen Hill North this morning. We continued on the herd path and picked up the woods road that brought us back to the truck.
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 | Name: |
Brian Bond |
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 | E-Mail: |
brianbond@comcast.net |
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| Date Submitted: |
2019-07-14 |
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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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