Crockers?

[chipc]

Not bad (as of last September). A bit thick to start, but herd path (SWIMMING in flagging tape) until you reach the road over the col, then a trail up from there. Still faster to come back down the logging road route, though.

You'll get some spruce in the teeth, and I suppose it's possible to get lost if you're careless, but I expected far worse.

I did this stretch at the end of last August and it is as jniehof says. I'm a relative novice at off-trail travel, so I was looking to get a little more experience with the stretch from S Crocker to Redington. Unfortunately my route-finding skills were not really tested. (Embarrassingly I had more trouble spotting the AT crossing off CRV, but that's another story.)

 

[una_dogger]

We did Reddington by the standard route last August, but where the herdpath from S Crocker joins the Reddington herdpath was obvious -- and the herdpath heading to S Crocker looked very well used. It looks like a nice trail, actually! Looking like red carpet treatment all the way up there in Maine from now on (sadly?)-- even the six pack had fairly well defined herdpaths most of the way.

 

[MichaelJ]

One thing to know about the bushwhack from Crocker - you will cross the AT boundary corridor not too long after leaving the North Crocker summit. When you get to it, just walk right across it (it's a cleared strip through the woods) and continue bushwhacking through the woods on the far side. Don't think it's a path and try to follow it. Others have. No good comes of it.