una_dogger
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Conditions: No snow until about 2500 ft; where an icy monorail begins. About 1.2 mile below the first ledges on Noon, the monorail is about 3 feet deep but holding firm in the middle -- a few ice bulges here and there on the steeper sections. Ledges dry and clear. Ascending Jennings --hardpack monorail. Sandwich Mntn Trail between Jennings Spur and Sandwich Mtn is a mess -- monorail is pretty badly deteriorated and snow is rotten. Deep moose and human postholes for the last 1.3 miles of trail. Snow here still about 5ft deep.
Algonquin trail looks unbroken.
Crossings:
Used road and short bushwack to avoid brook crossing. Others we passed who'd taken Drake's Brook Tr said the crossing was extremely difficult.
Equipment: microspikes, poles. Snowshoes useless, snow is too rotten at this point. Just try to stay on the rail while it holds! Gaiters recommended to spare your shins from the inevitable post hole here and there.
Great day in the woods with MichaelJ and Terra -- shorts, teeshirts, sunglasses, gaiters and microspikes! Woo hoo!!!
NEHH #88/100 for me.
Algonquin trail looks unbroken.
Crossings:
Used road and short bushwack to avoid brook crossing. Others we passed who'd taken Drake's Brook Tr said the crossing was extremely difficult.
Equipment: microspikes, poles. Snowshoes useless, snow is too rotten at this point. Just try to stay on the rail while it holds! Gaiters recommended to spare your shins from the inevitable post hole here and there.
Great day in the woods with MichaelJ and Terra -- shorts, teeshirts, sunglasses, gaiters and microspikes! Woo hoo!!!
NEHH #88/100 for me.
