| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Cannon Mountain, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Lonesome Lake Trail, Hi Cannon Trail, Kinsman Ridge Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, February 8, 2025 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Lot to the left when you pull in is no longer an option due to snow depth. Parallel parked along the access road in front of the building. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular, Snow - Drifts |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
None today, the deep snow would have been a challenge. |
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 | Lost and Found: |
A pair of snowshoes and a pair of poles on Lonesome Lake Trail just up from the lake...passed a family on the way up, assume they had left it there on purpose. |
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 | Comments: |
Snowshoes door to door. Had hoped to do Cannon and Kinsmen today, and assumed Hi Cannon would have seen some traffic yesterday or today (started at noon). Nope, completely un-tracked other than bunnies. 3-4" down low became waist deep above the ladder which was completely buried. Was already up against the clock with the snow this evening, and with the added time/effort to get up Hi Cannon opted to head down after Cannon.
KRT heading down towards Lonesome Lake trail had some snowshoe traffic, so I chose to head down that instead of back down Hi Cannon. The route on the sketchy steep "slip here would be bad" section was more zig-zaggy than when I'd done it a few weeks ago and much more palatable today. The snowshoers from the day before had switched to crampons for the steep section. The aggressive cleats on my Tubbs VRT Flex snowshoes were very useful as I down climbed...it would not be a good stretch to do without snowshoes designed for Mtn travel. KRT up towards the Cannonballs was completely untracked. After the steep section on KRT, the trail down to the lake is well packed but snowshoes are still the best option.
The Lake Loop is well packed, and the trail down from the lake is as usual a superhighway so that the people in tennis shoes seemed to be doing OK. On the way up the Dodge Cutoff from the lake to Hi-Cannon had been untracked but it looked decently packed from the Lake side when I went by, and other people had apparently followed me up Hi-Cannon which was pretty packed by the time I passed it on the way down. With the unsoncolidated base and incoming snow, snowshoes are going to be necessary for a while. |
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 | Name: |
Borealis |
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 | E-Mail: |
kdwelch1@gmail.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2025-02-08 |
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 | Link: |
 https://www.strava.com/activities/13576761942/overview |
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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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