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Trail Conditions: Packed powder up to treeline. Above treeline a mix of deep drifts, ice and exposed rock. Equipment: snowshoes were used and then crampons were used and then back to snowshoes on the way down when back to treeline. Thanks to all who used snowshoes as the trail is nicely...

Lost a Tubbs Mountain snowshoe off my pack while above treeline on Monroe on Monday,12/29/08 then lost an OR mitten while hiking the Tripyramids that next Friday, 1/2/09. Happy ending though, my husband wanted me to get new snowshoes with a heel lift so he immediately bought me a new pair of...

Good info, we wouldn't of had it in time except we didn't make it today (See the link). We will use it next time though. Hopefully next week. http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27288

1/9/09 Lincoln woods to Franconia Brook Trail Trail Conditions: used snowshoes all day. Lincoln woods mostly packed powder but snowshoes were helpful. Franconia Brook 5-6 inches of fresh powder over some barely visible indentations. Pretty much breaking trail. Got about 3/4 mile up trail...

The other bushwhack Thanks for the input. What we were looking at was Lincoln Woods to Franconia Brook Trail then bushwacking up the east side (Opposite side of the slide), Where Hellsgate (or Hells-something) brook enters (don't have the map with me and forget the brook name).

We are contemplating the winter bushwack to Owls Head on Friday and wonder if anyone has been there yet this winter??

N and M Tripyramind from Pine Bend Brook Trail 1/2/09 TRAIL CONDITIONS: Powder and packed powderd , perfect conditions for snow shoes (although you wouldn't think so from the trail head!)l and even better if you have heel lits for the steeps. When it starts to get steep and the trail turns...

Sierra Trading Post sometimes has good deals. We got back country skiis there. They have last years models marked way down. I would probably not want to order boots on line unless you know exactly what size you are. If they like to ski where there are no groomed trails then back country is...

we just need to train the MSR users to walk with their feet a little wider apart. My husband has MSR's and I have Tubbs and we run into this problem. If he could just keep his feet a little wider... we also have the same problem when we x-country ski. we both have the same skis and bindings...

The road is plowed and sanded to the Cog Railway. No one was around so I (and a few others) just parked near the trail head. The trail has been "used' all the way to the hut and beyond. It is a frozen track of post holes, snowshoe prints, footprints and ice chunks. There are not very many...

beautiful day. Dusting of snow at the parking at 8 this AM. 2-3 inches all the way to the summit. The trail is wet,wet,WET!! Good water proof shoes and gaiters a must. We managed to find a path across all the water crossings, sometimes using rocks with water going over them. On the way up...

Thinking about parking at 19 Mile Bk Trailhead then hiking over South Carter and Middle Carter then down the Imp Trail to the point where the Imp is about 0.7 miles from 19 Mile Bk Tr then whacking back to the 19 Mile Bk Trail. The bushwhack will have to include crossing Cowboy Brook. The...

Went up 19 mile brook trail We wore stabilicers. No postholing at all today. Switched to crampons at Wildcat Ridge Trail. Wore crampons for the rest of the day. We carried snowshoes but never put them on. All water crossings were not an issue. We hiked down the Polecat Trail at the ski...

Went up 19 mile brook trail. (a super highway) Barebooted easily. Carter Dome trail had 4-5 inches of fresh powder on packed base from someone else. Carter-Moriah to Carter Dome 6-8 inches of fresh powder on base. beautiful day. Not a speck of wind on summit of Carter Dome. Snowshoes...

Great day. Traction needed from parking lot to trail head. Trail was packed down but we wore snowshoes all the way. Decided to use crampons for the trip down the ledges it was a good choice. Broke out Bluberry ledge cut-off on the way down (to Diceys Mill.) The only tracks there were from...

Even with 3 of us in snowshoes we almost made it to the summit. Breaking trail in 6" of powder at parking lot progressing to about 2 feet of powder as we gained alavation. great workout. Snowshoes and poles a "must".

All great suggestions. I also carry a dog specific first aid kit which I put together with the help of a friend who is a vet. A lot of "cling to itself" rolls of gauze/tape. As far as trails Caps Ridge to Jefferson comes to mind as one of the more difficult for my lab, and being a black lab...

Anyone know what the trail is like right now. Planning on hiking it next weekend from Rt. 16 to Carter Hut. Also how is crossing the Ellis there?? Is it safer to start at Pinkham Notch and take the Lost Pond Trail?? Thanks Nancy

Cinder is a NH 4k dog also. She drinks from my camelback hose. She likes to stay out front but will come back when thursty and give me the "I need a drink look". I carry a doggy first aid kit that I have put together with the help of a vet friend. It mainly consists of a pair of scissors...

Does anyone know if Ravine Lodge Road is open to car travel I know they don't plow it but I don;t remember a gate at the end. Thanks Nancy