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Date of Hike: Tue. Mar. 2, 2010 Trails: Dicey's Mill Trail Trail was filled in with loose snow, from about 2 inches down low to 4 inches at the summit. We barebooted to the major crossing, which was snow bridged and easy to cross, then switched to snowshoes for the remainder of the day. Snow...

Date of Hike: Mon. Mar. 1, 2010 Trails: Mt. Tecumseh Trail from the ski area Snowshoe track was well defined from the start up to the view. From the view to the Sosman Trail Jct., the trail was blown in and had some minor drifts (my tracks were covered on the way back in this section). The...

Ed, Congratulations on a job well done. Bob

Date of Hike: Mon. 02-22-10 Trails: Basin Whack, Liberty Springs Trail, Franconia Ridge Trail. All tracks from this weekend were covered over with a dusting to about 2" of new snow. I used "Hillsounds" to the summit of Liberty and put on my snowshoes for the ridge walk and left them on to...

Date of Hike: Thur. 02-18-10 Trails: Carter-Moriah Trail. A dusting of new snow down low to about 2" higher up with some minor drifting. Trail very well packed. A few step over and around blow downs. I wore my "Hillsound Trail Crampons" the whole way. Carried my snowshoes but didn't use them...

Date of Hike: Sat. 02-13-10 Trails: Lincoln Woods, Black Pond Bushwhack, Lincoln Brook, Brutus Whack, Owls Head Path. All trails and whacks firmly packed out. Water crossings all bridged over. Bare booted to base of Brutus Bushwhack and put snowshoes on for the climb. We adjusted the bushwhack...

Date of Hike: Thur. 02-11-10 Trails: Starr King Tr. About 2" of loose snow this morning. Someone was on the trail, probably yesterday, stirred it up some. Used snow shoes the whole way to smooth it out a bit. Several in snow shoes after me, so the trail in nicely packed all the way to Waumbek...

Date of Hike: Tue. 02-09-10 Trails: Hancock Notch, Cedar Brook, Hancock Loop About 1" of fresh powder down low with increasing depths to about 4" of new powder across the ridge. Some drifting as usual on the ridge with trail disappearing in places. Solid base the whole way. Water crossings are...

Date of Hike: Fri. 02-05-10 Trails: Polecat Ski Trail, Wildcat Ridge, 19 Mile Brook Trail Up the Ski Tr. which was groomed styrofoam. Snow shoes with televators worked great. The ridge was drifted over but solid base for easy breaking. One crawl under blow down and a few walk arounds and step...

Date of Hike: Wed. 02-03-10 Trails: 19 Mile Bk., Carter Dome Tr., Carter Moriah Tr., North Carter Tr., Imp Tr., Joe Dodge cutoff. 19 Mile Brook Trail and Carter Dome Trail were hard packed all the way to Zeta Pass. A few blow downs along the way with half frozen water crossings. From Zeta...

Date of Hike: Mon. 02-01-10 Trails: Bunnell Notch Trail, Mt. Cabot Trail. There was about 4" of new unplowed snow on York Pond Rd. driving in this morning. When we left, the road was plowed, but somewhat icy. All the trails were filled in. But with a solid base the trail breaking was pretty...

Date of Hike: Sat. 01-30-10 Trails: Blueberry Ledge, Rollins, Dicey's Mill About 1" of fresh powder down low and increasing with elevation. Micro-spikes until the snow got deeper then to snowshoes for the duration. More snow than I anticipated with lots of drifting. Ledges weren't too bad...

Date of Hike: Sat. 01-23-10 Trails: Lincoln Woods, Wilderness, Bondcliff, Twinway, Zealand Thanks for all the work of trail breaking that the folks did in the last week. The trail was a sidewalk all the way. Barebootable to the steps on Bondcliff. Snowshoes the rest of the way. Zealand road...

Date of Hike: Thur. 01-21-10 Trails: Greeley Pond Tr., Osceola Tr. Soft and loose snow with firm base. Hiked with Hiker Ed, Guy Jubinville, Mark Tuckerman (Silverfox) and Tim today. Most of us wore snow shoeshoes all the way to Osceola summit. Some switched to crampons at the Chimney. Footing...

Date of Hike: Tue. 01-19-10 Trails: Zealand Rd., Hale Brook Tr. Winter lot on Rt. 302 plowed. Zealand Road not plowed. About 3" of new snow this morning on the road walk. We bare-booted to the trailhead. Hail Brook wasn't broken out from Sunday nights snow. There was about 4" of fresh powder...

Earl, That just finishes me off on Isolation for the Grid. I still have a long ways to go. About 75 percent complete. Still have more to do in Jan. Did you guys get to meet Jerry Horne (age 77)? Only 9 more winter peaks to go to complete his 3rd set of winters over age 70. What an inspiration...

Earl, Nice to see you and Sue again. What a day we had. I think Jeremy (Rocket) and company broke out the new Bushwack route. It worked out pretty good. Happy Trails, Bob

Date of Hike: Thur. 01-14-10 Trails: Valley Way, Osgood, Gulfside, Snowfields We bare-booted to Randolf Jct. From there to the Hut, snowshoes for traction in the softer snow. From the Hut to Madison summit, crampons were perfect, on the styrofoam conditions. We left our crampons on for Adams...

Date of Hike: Tue. 01-12-10 Trails: Pine Bend Brook Tr. The Pine Bend Tr. was well packed up the valley to the base of the steeps. From there up and over the ridge the snow was softer but still a firm base. The bottoms could be bare-booted but snow shoes are recommended for the steeps and the...

Date of Hike: Sat. 01-09-10 Trails: Polecat Ski Tr., Wildcat Ridge, 19 Mile Bk. Tr. Trails more packed than from yesterday's post. Polecat was groomed and mostly styrofoam. The ridge was somewhat soft but with a firm base. Coming off of Wildcat "A" was rather slick. We did some butt sliding...