Search results

Date of Hike: Wed. Feb. 16, 2011 Trails: Valley Way, Airline, Osgood Trail, Snowfields Valley Way packed nicely to the tent sites, snow a little loose from there up to the hut. Trail up to Adams mostly styrofoam, packed snow and some ice. Madison cone mostly packed snow and ice with lots of...

Today Bill Marcotte was joined by 7 of his friends as he finished the Grid on Mt. Adams. Bill is the 14th person to accomplish this amazing feat. For those who don't know, the Grid is bagging all 48 4000 foot peaks in New Hampshire in every month of the year for a total of 576 peaks. Thanks to...

Date of Hike: Mon. Feb. 14, 2011 Trails: Crawford Path, Webster Cliff Trail Conditions: First, a thank you to Eric for posting his hike yesterday and another thank you for finding the trail. Crawford Path up to the Jct. with the Webster Cliff Trail was packed out. The trail over to Ike was...

Date of Hike: Fri. Feb. 11, 2011 Trails: Blueberry Ledge, Rollins, Dicey's Mill Conditions: Nice solid packed out trail to Whiteface summit. Thanks to the folks from Wednesday. We used spikes to the Tom Wiggins Jct. and snowshoes went on for the rest of the day. Snow loose and unconsolidated...

Date of Hike: Thur. Feb. 10, 2011 Trails: Ravine Lodge Rd., Gorge Brook Trail Conditions: 7 of us broke out the trail from the beginning of Ravine Lodge Rd. to the summit, with the help of one lone person on skis, who passed us on our way up. About 6" to 8" of fresh powder over a firm base...

Date of Hike: Sat. Feb. 5, 2011 Trails: Kinsman Ridge Tr. Conditions: From the Tram parking there was about 6" of unbroken powder over a firm base up until the glades. The glades were well skied and hard packed, which made for some nice footing. At the 90 degree turn, where the glade trail...

Date of Hike: Tue. Feb. 1, 2011 Trails: Lonesome Lake Tr., Fishin Jimmy, Kinsman Ridge Trail. Conditions: Trail broken nicely all the way to South Kinsman. We cut across the frozen lake. Some of our gang wore snowshoes from the get go and keep them on all day. The rest wore hillsounds or...

Date of Hike: Sat. Jan. 29, 2011 Trails: 19 Mile Brook Tr., Carter Dome Trail, Carter-Moriah Tr. Conditions: 19 Mile was a packed side walk. Hillsounds and Micros worked fine. From jct. up to Zeta and beyond, we used snowshoes. Carter Dome was well broken, but not fully consolidated to Zeta...

Date of Hike: Sat. Jan. 22, 2011 Trails: Hancock Notch, Cedar Brook, Hancock Loop (Clockwise) Conditions: We went in today as part of Hiker Ed's large group. Snowshoes car to car. The trail is a well packed super highway all the way around. Lots of other groups on the trail today also...

Date of Hike: Mon. Jan. 17, 2011 Trails: Sawyer River Rd., Signal Ridge Trail Conditions: Winter lot on Rt. 302 not plowed, but usable. The road walk was easy on snowmobile tracks. Signal Ridge Trail was broken out nicely, to my surprise. Kudos to the people who broke it out. The first water...

Trish, Nice meeting you and Alex on the trail. Great day out. Nice to see Dave Bear, Rick (MadRiver), Larissa, and Bryan also. Wolfgang

Date of Hike: Tue. Jan. 11, 2011 Trails: Jewell, Gulfside, Trinity Connector, Crawford Path, Ammoonusuc Ravine Conditions: We were the first on Jewell today. It had about 2 to 3 inches of fresh powder. We put on snow shoes just before the trail started to climb and left them on to the Gulfside...

Date of Hike: Sat. Jan. 8, 2011 Trails: Crawford Path Conditions: Super highway all the way to Ike. Nice and firm. Doesn't get any better. Hillsounds all day. Some people in spikes, crampons, or snowshoes. Crampons an overkill. Minimal ice between the peaks. Got there early enough to have...

Date of Hike: Thur. Jan. 6, 2011 Trails: Bushwhack, N. Twin Tr., N. Twin Spur, Twin Way, Frost Tr., Garfield Ridge Tr., Gale River Tr., Gale River Rd., Ski Tr. Conditions: N. Twin Trail well packed and solid with about 2" of fresh powder. Bushwhacked around the first two crossings. The Third...

Date of Hike: Tue. Jan. 4, 2011 Trails: Ravine Lodge Rd., Gorge Brook Trail Conditions: Road walk was easy with a mixture of packed snow and ice with half the road length bare. Gorge Brook Tr. was well packed out, bumpy, and solid with some flow ice patches. No blow-downs. The trail is in...

Date of Hike: Mon. Jan. 3, 2011 Trails: Carter-Moriah Trail Conditions: With the freeze,the broken out trail is now solidified. Frozen and firm. A little lumpy, but in excellent shape. Made good time today in my Hillsounds. Some sections on the steeps are quite icy, but enough snow on the...

Date of Hike: Fri. Dec. 24, 2010 Trails: Valley Way, Gulfside, Airline, Osgood One person had been on Valley Way yesterday. The trail was broken out but not consolidated. The snow is loose and fluffy the higher up one climbs. Some minor drifting near the hut, but not bad. Adams cone was mostly...

Date of Hike: Tue. Dec. 14, 2010 Trails: Pine Bend Brook Trail, Mt. Tripyramid Trail About 1" of styrofoam snow with an icy crust beneath in the bottoms. Snow increased to several inches higher up, but also styrofoam conditions, but more ice. Great conditions for traction. I wore my spikes to...

Date of Hike: Sat. Dec. 11, 2010 Trails: Basin Bike Path Bushwhack, Liberty Springs Trail, Franconia Ridge Trail. About 5" of powder down low to about 6" to 8" higher and between the peaks. Hidden ice patches beneath the snow. A few minor blow downs and an easy stream crossing. We hiked with...

Date of Hike: Thur. Dec. 9, 2010 Trails: Kinsman Ridge Trail from the Tram lot. There was about 8 to 12 inches of unbroken powder all the way to the summit with drifts, knee to thigh deep, on the ridge after the view point and ascending the cone. The snow has covered everything but it's not...