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date: 7/13/13 trails: hopper trail, sperry road, ccc dynamite trail, jones nose trail, appalachian trail, old summit road trail, money brook trail conditions: hopper trail was relatively dry as were the roads. very well maintained footbed on hopper. dynamite trail in good shape as well...

date: 7/12/13 trails: carter-moriah trail, nineteen mile brook trail, wildcat ridge trail, ski trails conditions: lots of residual wetness in the woods after recent rain. ledges headed up moriah from gorham were wet and slick in spots. some mud and slippery bog bridging as well. the more...

date: 7/11/13 trails: long trail, bushwack conditions: rt. 242 out of montgomery is undergoing construction that may lead to delays, but none today. the long trail was wet with some slick rocks. i walked it for about .8 to the ridge at the south end of gilpin then turned back north and...

date: 7/11/13 trails: logging road, bushwack conditions: parked at the end of the unmarked logging road 2.8 miles west of belvidere corner on 109. take care not to block the gate. plenty of room for a car or two out of the way. other than a no parking sign on the gate reminding people...

date: 7/7/13 trails: holt trail, manning trail, mowglis trail, clark trail, south ridge trail, skyline trail, vistamont trail conditions: dry footing on lower holt and much of the way on manning minus some damp areas. upper ledges were almost all dry except for a few wooded sections where...

date: 7/6/13 trails: east royce trail, royce connector trail, royce trail conditions: posting this in the maine section as the hike began and ended there though west royce is on the nh side of the border. east royce trail was dry down low and though steep had good footing. a bit rougher...

date: 7/5/13 trails: middlesex trail, bob kemp trail, white rock trail, skyline trail, worcester mountain trail conditions: both trailheads had rough access roads (mountain road for worcester mountail trail and north bear swamp road for middlesex trail). they can be driven with little...

date: 6/30/13 trails: woods road, bushwack conditions: drove nash stream road to trio ponds road (have also heard it referred to as little bog pond road). did not get exact mileage, but drove roughly 1.5 on trio ponds until a pretty obvious woods road with a grassy area next to the road...

date: 6/29/13 trails: bushwack, roadwalk conditions: hubbard brook road is in good condition. i parked near its end where it turns left uphill. i headed straight into the woods on a line towards the summit of cushman. woods were wet, as expected, but open at first becoming more scrappy...

shows on one of my older map programs as well. frye brook trail? http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?37404-Frye-Brook-Trail-East-Baldpate bryan

date: 6/27/13 trails: brown road, atv trail, logging road, bushwack conditions: drove in meriden hill road from route 3 near columbia to brown road. drove about 1.5 miles on brown road and then parked along with a group of other familiar hikers who happened to have the same plan for west...

date: 6/22/13 trails: forest road 602, old logging roads, bushwack, moat mountain trail, dugway road conditions: parked in a large pull off at the start of forest road 602 which is about 2 miles west of the parking for moat mountain trail. the road is clearly travelled until it first...

drove out to stratford bog pond yesterday to do some hiking and the roads were not an issue in my corolla (http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?49440-savage-mountain-east-spruce-6-21-13). once at the pond i believe bog road becomes an atv trail so i don't know about driving it beyond that...

date: 6/21/13 trails: logging roads, bushwack conditions: drove in from rt 3 in stratford via bog road, bordeau road, cloutier road and back onto bog road. google maps sort of has it right, but seems to neglect a whole section of road between cloutier and the upper part of bog road. this...

date: 6/20/13 trails: logging roads, bushwack conditions: drove in via meriden hill road (leaves rt. 3 to the right a bit north of north stratford. google was a bit off with location, but close) to brown road. i followed brown road for roughly 1.4 miles. the road is rough in spots, but...

date: 6/16/13 trails: road walk, atv/snowmobile trail conditions: after hiking kibby mountain we got back on to beaudry road and followed it to where west branch road turns off to the left in an area with various campers and rvs. west branch road immediately became rougher and some may...

date: 6/16/13 trails: woods road conditions: the new maine mountain guide has good directions to the trailhead. from 27 turn right onto gold brook road (kibby wind signs) and drive for close to 9 miles where it becomes signed as beaudry road. crest the next hill and turn right onto a...

date: 6/15/13 trails: parker ridge trail, tumbledown ridge trail, tumbledown mountain trail, little jackson mountain trail, jackson mountain trail conditions: the dirt road to reach parker ridge trailhead is off of byron road a short distance from 142 and is unmarked. parking is limited...

date: 6/15/13 trails: mt. blue trail conditions: mt. blue road is in fine shape though is quite narrow so watch for oncoming traffic. mt. blue trail is in good condition and work is clearly in process to do more rock hardening in a number of areas. some minor mud, but mostly dry trail...

date: 6/14/13 trails: avalon trail, mt. willard trail conditions: trails were in nice shape with only one short section of mud on the trail up willard. a couple of shallow stream crossings on mt. willard trail were a non issue. black flies were nasty if not moving even on the breezy...