HockeyPuck
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Hiked Mt Waumbek And Waumbek East via the Starr King trail. I parked on Rt 2 at a public lot near the Irving gas station and walked the extra few hundred yards to the trail head which can be accessed by a vehicle with good ground clearance.
The Starr King trail was frozen mashed potato snow chocked full of post holes. It was too bumpy for snowshoes and not deep enough for crampons. Yax trax or micro spikes are probably your best option until the next snowfall. One major blowdown a few hundred yards past the spring spur trail 2 additional blow downs higher that are easily hoppable. Trail was broken to the summit of Waumbek and I put on snowshoes continuing on to Waumbek East with suspicions that the East elevation might be higher than Waumbek. My GPSr averaged Waumbek at 10 Ft higher.
HockeyPuck
The Starr King trail was frozen mashed potato snow chocked full of post holes. It was too bumpy for snowshoes and not deep enough for crampons. Yax trax or micro spikes are probably your best option until the next snowfall. One major blowdown a few hundred yards past the spring spur trail 2 additional blow downs higher that are easily hoppable. Trail was broken to the summit of Waumbek and I put on snowshoes continuing on to Waumbek East with suspicions that the East elevation might be higher than Waumbek. My GPSr averaged Waumbek at 10 Ft higher.
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