RFI Mahoosucs in Feb.

[bcskier]

I'm planning to visit the Mahoosucs and try a Goose Eye to Fulling Mill trip with a couple of friends. Just wondering what to expect in the way of trailbreaking, etc. Will the Success Pond Rd. be plowed out past both trailheads (Goose Eye & Notch Tr.)? I figure we'll spot a car at the end of one. Does the ridge often require crampons or is it safe to leave them behind?

Any info is greatly appreciated.

 

[cushetunk]

I've been wanting to do something like this in winter for years, but haven't had a chance yet.

Forgive me if you already know all this, but I doubt the stretch of trail between Goose Eye and Fulling Mill receives more than a few visits each winter, if that many. North of the Goose Eye summits, I suspect you'll be looking at challenging trail-finding in windblown scrub where conditions go rapidly back and forth between deeply drifted and wind-scoured. I'd certainly bring crampons, if only for the summit cone(s) of Goose Eye. This is a committing trip and if it were me, I'd want to have a variety of tools at my disposal.

Are you doing this as a day trip or an overnight? Either way, it sounds like an adventure!

 

[bcskier]

North of the Goose Eye summits, I suspect you'll be looking at challenging trail-finding in windblown scrub where conditions go rapidly back and forth between deeply drifted and wind-scoured. I'd certainly bring crampons, if only for the summit cone(s) of Goose Eye. This is a committing trip and if it were me, I'd want to have a variety of tools at my disposal.

Are you doing this as a day trip or an overnight? Either way, it sounds like an adventure!

I had a sense that that was the case. I'm glad to get some opinions about it. I'm proposing to my comrades that we try and do it in one long day. Perhaps it's possible, perhaps not. It won't be the first winter objective we will have retreated from if it comes to that.

Anyone have any ideas about skis as a possibility on this route?