Jason Berard
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I've been wanting to get into Tunnel Ravine on the west side of Moosilauke for a long time. In the 30's there was a trail that went right up from Tunnel Brook Road into Tunnel ravine, where there was a cabin, and then climbed a slide up to the ridge to join the Benton Trail. If you look at a map of Moosilauke, the ravine due west from the main summit is Tunnel Ravine. Its kinda neat.
The ridges that form the sides almost meet at the end. Anyway, I had a half day today to explore, so off I went, knowing that I would have to turn around before I wanted to.
I started at the end of Tunnel Brook Rd and turned east at the second brook crossing.
I saw a lot of big trees that had been girdled with a saw....
After a while, I hit the brook draining the ravine. I also came across a moose skeleton, which was spread out quite a ways, and looked like it had been there a while, as it was covered with at least one years worth of leaves.
Then, following the brook on the north side, I came across this:
At the falls is where I found my only sign of a trail ever having been here:
I believe I heard from avk4316 that DOC used to use a different blaze than the orange/black/orange that I am used to seeing all over the Upper Valley.
Maybe this was their older blaze scheme?
Anyway, the waterfall was reward enough for the day, but I wanted to climb a bit more before I turned around to see if I could get a glimpse into the ravine. This is the best I could do. This is looking east, possibly at Mt. Blue?
This is looking west, and you can just see the slides on Clough:
On the way back I chose a different route and connected with a N/S logging road which was nice to follow all the way back to the car.
Driving back down Tunnel Brook, I saw a stone pillar on each side of the road, not too far from the junction with 112:
I'm wondering what they were from.....possibly "The Old Parker House"?
The ridges that form the sides almost meet at the end. Anyway, I had a half day today to explore, so off I went, knowing that I would have to turn around before I wanted to.I started at the end of Tunnel Brook Rd and turned east at the second brook crossing.
I saw a lot of big trees that had been girdled with a saw....
After a while, I hit the brook draining the ravine. I also came across a moose skeleton, which was spread out quite a ways, and looked like it had been there a while, as it was covered with at least one years worth of leaves.
Then, following the brook on the north side, I came across this:
At the falls is where I found my only sign of a trail ever having been here:
I believe I heard from avk4316 that DOC used to use a different blaze than the orange/black/orange that I am used to seeing all over the Upper Valley.
Maybe this was their older blaze scheme?
Anyway, the waterfall was reward enough for the day, but I wanted to climb a bit more before I turned around to see if I could get a glimpse into the ravine. This is the best I could do.
This is looking east, possibly at Mt. Blue?
This is looking west, and you can just see the slides on Clough:
On the way back I chose a different route and connected with a N/S logging road which was nice to follow all the way back to the car.
Driving back down Tunnel Brook, I saw a stone pillar on each side of the road, not too far from the junction with 112:
I'm wondering what they were from.....possibly "The Old Parker House"?
