| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
Mt. Hight, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Nineteen Mile Brook Trail, Carter Dome Trail, Carter-Moriah Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Sunday, February 5, 2023 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
The Nineteen-Mile Brook Trailhead lot was plowed, but had a thin layer of snow. It was almost full at 9am. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts, Snow/Ice - Postholes |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes, Light Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
Streams were flowing, but all had bridges or snowbridges, or were small enough to jump over. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
There are many small twigs jutting into the trail, and occasionally larger broken branches which could be painful to someone not paying attention. |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
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 | Lost and Found: |
Lost a one-liter Hünersdorff water bottle (full of water, probably ice now) at Zeta Pass or somewhere below it on Carter Dome Trail. It looks like this: https://40below.com/product/cold-weather-water-bottle-1-0-liter-size/
Email me if you found it! |
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 | Comments: |
The snow on Nineteen-Mile Brook Trail is so packed already that microspikes are best (at least for the part we hiked, the 1.9 miles up to the junction with Carter Dome Trail). The snow on Carter Dome Trail up to Zeta Pass is less packed and becomes deeper as one ascends, so snowshoes are best here. Above Zeta Pass, it seemed that everyone was going directly to Carter Dome via Carter Dome Trail, but we instead went up to Mt. Hight. The trail approaching Mt. Hight (from the north) was mostly obscured by snow drifts, but we broke it out again with 10 pairs of snowshoes; crampons were not needed. We then tried continuing from Mt. Hight towards Carter Dome along the ridge, but here the snow drifts were several feet deep, and there was no longer even a hint of a trail visible. We started trying to re-establish a trail using GPS, but as soon as we diverged slightly from the correct path one of us created a full-body posthole with snowshoes a few feet deep! We were running out of daylight hours, so instead of trying to continue to Carter Dome, we went back the way we came, with some of us glissading down the north side of Mt. Hight.
Note: If you follow our path from Mt. Hight towards Carter Dome, then, as explained above, it may not be exactly on-trail, and it soon reaches a dead end (unless someone else continued it to the point where it rejoins the Carter Dome Trail). |
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 | Name: |
mathbp |
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 | E-Mail: |
tiramisu_eater@yahoo.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2023-02-05 |
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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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