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    Peekamoose from 42 12/21/08

    Up with 13 from NJSAR's Mountain Rescue Unit. Peekamoose treated us to 18 inches of fresh snow and an unbroken trail, blowdown was light but ice on the trees hampered progress some, ice hasent formed in the cliff bands yet so the day went smoothly not having to change from snowshoes to crampons...
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    Bearpen From Johnsontown hollow 12/13/08

    Up with a group from New Jersey Search And Rescue's Mountain Rescue Unit, Weather was cold 9 degrees when we left the trucks with very little wind.Some sun and some snow squalls throughout the day. Trail conditions where rough with alot of blowdown on the lower road up to the hunting cabin.The...
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    Eagle From Seager 11/29/08

    Up with seven from NJSAR's Mountain Rescue Unit, 15 inches of fresh snow on the mountain, we broke trail to the summit in 29 Degree temps with cloudy skies and some flurries. There was some blowdown across the trail on seager brook and again at 3480 just before the summit requiring us to crawl...
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    Katterskill High Peak

    11/16/08 Climbed with six from NJSAR's mountain rescue unit, Long path /snow mobile trail WET! WET! WET! as usual, but no snow or ice. Some spots are heavily flooded requiring a slight deviation from the trail but still nogotiable. The bushwack section (old twilight park trail) being still...
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    Table -Lone & Rocky

    9/28/08 The trail to Table was in good condition ( Met with Tom & Laurie in the parking lot they where there for trail work ) and the shelter was clean as usual as for Lone & Rocky well our Leader John Grahm Took us right to the canister's, Rained on us most of the day, I had never done Lone...
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    Rusk form Spruceton

    The conditions where great 10 inches of fresh light snow. Went up from Ox hollow lots of blowdown as usual above 3000 feet, but there was no ice in the cliff bands so the going was fairly easy with no need to use crampons through the cliffs. A great snowshoe day and it was a great day to finish...
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    Slide from Slide Mtn. Trailhead

    The trail was in great condition, with all the lower water sections frozen and hardpack all the way to the top with only a few bare spots at the stream crossings, no blowdown was noted ,and only a few overhanging branches need trimming, the weather started out at 8 degrees but soon warmed into...
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    Giant ledges and Panther

    The trail was frozen from the start with frozen rubble from the trees making a ball bearing type surface to contend with. Run off from fridays rain was frozen solid creating frozen waterfalls for just about the entire run. Stabilicers or crampons are a must, snowfall was minimum from friday...
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