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Ray from VT
Guest
Bond Cliff Trail has progressively more snow, with tracks blown in by the hairpin below Bondcliff--Snowshoes useful to necessary. Bond Col scoured to bare rock and hard ice w/ significant drifts in the lee areas & deep pockets of powder on Mt. Bond ascent--SS for traction & drifts OR crampons, etc. and slog the pockets.
Far side very deep & unbroken, with the exception of windscouring on Mt. Guyot slope. Guyote camp is buried--Easy, pillowy SS gliding the downs, but exhausting up's. Be Advised: Easy to loose trail in glades below South Twin Peak due to extreme snow depth & snow-bowed conifers. South Twin to Galehead, very deep powder, (11 minutes SS gliding from Twin summit down to Galehead, smiling all the way.)
Very deep and unbroken on Twinbrook trail, Be Advised: 1) Very easy to loose trail 2) I did-- finally, for good, if you are out there in next few days, recommend DO NOT follow my tracks when they begin to meander: As night fell, took map and compass bearing and bushwacked about two miles to strike Franconia Brook Trail--Steep, deep, numerous drainages, spruce traps, and other cruelties. Franconia Brook Trail, SS still necessary, but easy travel except for some water crossings, which range from iced over, to open and tricky or difficult.
Minor step-over/walk-around blowdows the whole loop. Only tracks from Bond Cliff to the Franconia Brk/ "Owls Head Trail" junction were moose. Lincoln Woods Trail well packed.
Far side very deep & unbroken, with the exception of windscouring on Mt. Guyot slope. Guyote camp is buried--Easy, pillowy SS gliding the downs, but exhausting up's. Be Advised: Easy to loose trail in glades below South Twin Peak due to extreme snow depth & snow-bowed conifers. South Twin to Galehead, very deep powder, (11 minutes SS gliding from Twin summit down to Galehead, smiling all the way.)
Very deep and unbroken on Twinbrook trail, Be Advised: 1) Very easy to loose trail 2) I did-- finally, for good, if you are out there in next few days, recommend DO NOT follow my tracks when they begin to meander: As night fell, took map and compass bearing and bushwacked about two miles to strike Franconia Brook Trail--Steep, deep, numerous drainages, spruce traps, and other cruelties. Franconia Brook Trail, SS still necessary, but easy travel except for some water crossings, which range from iced over, to open and tricky or difficult.
Minor step-over/walk-around blowdows the whole loop. Only tracks from Bond Cliff to the Franconia Brk/ "Owls Head Trail" junction were moose. Lincoln Woods Trail well packed.
