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date: 2/23/14 trails: sawyer river road, signal ridge trail, carrigain notch trail, bushwhack conditions: parking lot is well plowed. road packed out by snowmobiles. we had an unbroken crust over signal ridge trail in the morning, but it was heavily tracked out by afternoon. carrigain...

date: 2/22/14 trails: nancy pond trail, herd path, bushwhack conditions: trailhead pretty well plowed out. trail was unbroken from the most recent snowfall with about a 1 inch crust over a few inches of powder up to the crossing of nancy brook. old snowshoe trough was quite evident...

date: 2/20/14 trails: bennett st. loop road, bushwhack conditions: bennett street in sandwich was sloppy mid morning, but had melted off a lot by afternoon. there is a plowed area where the road to the summer trailhead forks left. i continued to the maintained end of the road where there...

date: 2/17/14 trails: east pasture x-c trail, bald land trail, east branch logging road, bushwhacks, east branch trail, logging roads conditions: great plowed parking at the end of black mountain road in jackson. east pasture trail was plowed to start then groomed. bald land trail groomed...

date: 2/15/14 trails: high st., north south road, bushwhack conditions: parked in the glencliff trail parking lot. lot was unplowed, but has been packed down by numerous cars. we missed noting the winged out area down near the start of north south road that would have allowed us to skip...

date: 2/8/14 trails: beaver brook xc trail, gale river road, gale river trail, garfield ridge trail, bushwhacks conditions: beaver brook xc trail packed out. road hard packed by snowmobiles. gale river trail more lightly broken, but now pretty well packed down. we broke trail to just...

date: 2/7/14 trails: fr59, skylight pond trail, long trail, breadloaf spur conditions: we parked at the maintained end of fr59 a bit over a mile from rt. 125. there is a driveway that had room to park on its side without blocking it. i assume if not blocking the driveway parking there is...

date: 2/1/14 trails: xc ski trails, ski trails, cohos trail, old summit loop trail, access road, snowmobile corridor 134, table rock trail conditions: we parked off rt. 26 near dixville notch at a snowmobile crossing west of the access road to the closed balsams ski area. we started up...

black crescent, north black crescent, south black crescent 1/30/14 date: 1/30/14 trails: logging roads, bushwhack conditions: we parked at the end of jimtown road in gorham in a large plowed out area. from parking we walked a short distance back down the road to a gated logging road...

date: 1/26/14 trails: logging roads, herd paths conditions: from rt. 3 south of colebrook we took washburn road (near irving station) for a bit over a mile to a fork where an active logging road goes right and the road to cleveland notch goes left. to this point the road was plowed and in...

date: 1/25/14 trails: sabbaday brook trail, bushwhack conditions: the sabbaday brook trail was packed down hard to the falls. travelled beyond, but not hard packed. up to probably six inches of snow in spots, but much less in others. we followed the trail to it's last crossing of the...

date: 1/24/14 trails: cherry mountain trail conditions: parking lot off 115 had a couple inches of snow that posed no problems for parking. a couple inches of fresh powder over a bit of a base at the start of the trail that had been booted out to the summit. a little bony in the final...

date: 1/24/14 trails: carlton notch trail, crescent ridge trail, pasture path, spur, randolph hill road conditions: we parked at the end of randolph hill road which was well plowed with a large plowed out area at its end. we walked a short distance back down the road to the trail which had...

"Update on Croydon Fire Tower: A friend just talked to the Superintendents office at the preserve and was told that Jerry is not working there anymore and under no uncertain terms was he suppose to being doing what he did. He continued to say that there will no longer be access to the preserve...

man, hopefully whoever they talked to was having a bad day and that won't be the case. that would effect the completion of numerous lists beyond just firetowers. i got the impression that "highpointers" would be let in to get to croydon regardless of the caretaker, but that may not be the...

date: 1/20/13 trails: firewardens trail, bushwhack, woods road, various trails conditions: parking in good shape. recent snow has left up to 6 inches over various surfaces from bareground to crust snow to thick ice. the wet snow is sticking well and ice was really not an issue. i started...

date: 1/18/14 trails: unofficial/private trail, bushwhack conditions: the parking for this hike is on private land at the end of herman savage road near lancaster. drive to the end of the road and as you approach the last house there is a large plowed out area on the left. no motorized...

date: 1/12/14 trails: baldface circle trail, slippery brook trail, bushwhack conditions: parking lot off of 113 was a skating rink. thick smooth ice covering the whole thing. 113 itself was decidedly messy, rough and icy much of the way past fryeburg as well. the section leading into...

date: 1/10/14 trails: ascutney parkway, slab trail conditions: we parked off of 44a across from the entrance to ascutney state park in a large plowed out area. the road was snowmobile packed to the upper parking lot. footing was firm for the first a couple miles then a bit softer to the...

date: 1/10/14 trails: gore road/snowmobile corridor 302e, snowmobile corridor 302c, bushwhack conditions: we parked in the v.a.s.t snowmobile lot off of route 302 about 14.2 miles west of I91 in groton. the lot is large and well plowed, but a bit icy. a short connector leads over to gore...