| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Mt. Wolf, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Kinsman Ridge Trail, Reel Brook Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Sunday, May 7, 2023 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Plenty at Kinsman Notch in the AM. The Reel Brook parking is marginally accessable in a low clearance sedan. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail, Wet Trail, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Mud - Significant, Snow - Spring Snow |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
All rock hopable provided you stay on the trail(s). See comments |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
More than 18 blowdowns, 15 of which are axe worthy. Some have been there long enough for a herdpath to develop around them |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
Too much mushy snow for dogs. |
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 | Bugs: |
The black flies are blooming. Picked up one tick probably in the power line swath |
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 | Comments: |
Pretty much dry trail up to about 3,000 feet. Then patches of mush start to appear. This stretch of the KRT gets very little traffic in Winter, so no monorail. Just mush with many postholes made with snowshoes. About 1/2 mile before the summit of Wolf the deep mush is constant. We were bare booting so going was slow/tedious with constant postholing sometimes knee deep into water. This continues for about a mile past the summit of Wolf where it's back to occasional mush.
Compared to the above the Reel Brook trail was a joy. However, below the place where the Reel Brook trail crosses to the North side of the power line swath it returns to the swath. I missed seeing where the trail reenters the woods still on the North side of the stream and swath so I continued down the swath worrying how I would find may way back to the Reel Brook TH. Walking down the swath was easy plus it was breezy and that discouraged the black flies. To my relief the swath comes to a stone wall. At the stone wall there is a trail down an old road which is the extension of the road to the TH. |
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 | Name: |
old man and the saw |
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| Date Submitted: |
2023-05-07 |
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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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