The Feathered Hat
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Trails: Bunnell Notch, Kilkenny Ridge
Conditions: Dry, sometimes muddy, down low; muddy and very wet in the mid-elevations; broken monorail from 3,200-3,900 feet; steady narrow and sometimes icy monorail from 3,900 feet to the summit. On the mostly flat stretch from the fire warden's cabin to the summit the spring snow is soft, rotting and still deep in places. The Bunnell Notch Trail-Kilkenny Ridge Trail junction in the Notch is underwater.
Special equipment: I used snowshoes from 3,900 feet to the top. Two fellows I met at the fire warden's cabin near the summit had barebooted all the way, but they decided not to continue to the summit because they did not have snowshoes.
Comment: At 2,850 feet elevation on the Bunnell Notch Trail there's a rotting moose carcass right beside the trail. The smell isn't terrible at this point but it may get that way in warmer weather. Someone killed the moose, sawed off the head, then left the carcass -- quite illegal.
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Steve B
The Feathered Hat
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Conditions: Dry, sometimes muddy, down low; muddy and very wet in the mid-elevations; broken monorail from 3,200-3,900 feet; steady narrow and sometimes icy monorail from 3,900 feet to the summit. On the mostly flat stretch from the fire warden's cabin to the summit the spring snow is soft, rotting and still deep in places. The Bunnell Notch Trail-Kilkenny Ridge Trail junction in the Notch is underwater.
Special equipment: I used snowshoes from 3,900 feet to the top. Two fellows I met at the fire warden's cabin near the summit had barebooted all the way, but they decided not to continue to the summit because they did not have snowshoes.
Comment: At 2,850 feet elevation on the Bunnell Notch Trail there's a rotting moose carcass right beside the trail. The smell isn't terrible at this point but it may get that way in warmer weather. Someone killed the moose, sawed off the head, then left the carcass -- quite illegal.
More in Trip Reports.
Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99682097@N00/3496207299/in/set-72157617544399557/
Steve B
The Feathered Hat
[email protected]
