CINDERSMOM
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The road is plowed and sanded to the Cog Railway. No one was around so I (and a few others) just parked near the trail head. The trail has been "used' all the way to the hut and beyond. It is a frozen track of post holes, snowshoe prints, footprints and ice chunks. There are not very many flat spots to step on. I used mocrospikes until the steeps after the gem pool and then switched to crampons. You can leave your snow shoes home. and speaking of snowshoes I lost one of mine on the Monroe summit loop. It is an old style Tubbs mountaineer 25. If anyone happens to see it and feels like carrying it down I would greatly appreciate it. Most of the rock slabs are now ice slabs so crampons are essential. Nancy
