Yesterday I was hiking along the Crawford-Ridgepole Trail between mounts Webster and Morgan, and saw a double blaze on a tree. Shortly beyond that I found an old trail (little evidence of traffic on it), and my GPSr showed a trail, "Cascade Trail", heading down from that point to Perch Pond. That trail was not shown on either the SLA or AMC maps. I was doing a long (for me) hike: Old Highway, Prescott Trail, Crawford-Ridgepole to Mt. Morgan, back to Cotton Mtn. and down to the gravel pit, about 14 miles and 3,000 feet of elevation gain. So I decided that enough was enough, and did not explore that trail.
When I got home I found that it was shown on the Braford Washburn map of the Squam Range ("Based on survey to 1971", so not exactly current). You can see it on this Topozone map.
As I said, it did not look well used at all, but the double blaze was fairly recent, so I am assuming that it can be followed.
Does anyone know anything about it? I don't seem to see it on the Lost Trails site.
When I got home I found that it was shown on the Braford Washburn map of the Squam Range ("Based on survey to 1971", so not exactly current). You can see it on this Topozone map.
As I said, it did not look well used at all, but the double blaze was fairly recent, so I am assuming that it can be followed.
Does anyone know anything about it? I don't seem to see it on the Lost Trails site.