tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58397471990260532212024-03-12T16:56:39.584-07:001SlowHiker's New England Peak HikesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839747199026053221.post-68064343592234753902017-10-25T20:05:00.001-07:002020-10-07T12:14:15.992-07:00Black pond Trail Fall 2017<h2>
Black pond Trail Work - Fall 2017</h2>
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Ended at Lincoln Woods TH ~ 12:04<br />
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15" blow0down 50 ft into trail (someone else had started working on it with an axe. The hand saw I brought were too small for this one (I wasnt able to get the Bow saw from the Lincoln Tool box)<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"> Reached Black Ponnd ~ 10:am will ttrim bruush on the way back, but over all trail is in good shape.</span></div>
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long log on side of trail, I cut it in half and moved it off trail<br />
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Hand saw that I had brought up with me, not as good as the Bow Saw but okay for small tree.<br />
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cleared a few other rotted logs across trail<br />
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views of the large log near the beginning of trail (too big for me to tackle today)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839747199026053221.post-2602438360952327892017-10-20T19:42:00.000-07:002017-10-25T19:43:31.982-07:00Black Pond Trail Fall 2017<h2>
<b>Black pond trail maintanance 05/19/17 posted 10/25/17</b></h2>
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Started at Linoln woods trail head at ~ 5am aon Blak pondtrail ~5:45<br />
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first blow-down half way on trail will remove on way back</div>
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tow blow-downs near black pond before<br />
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section of trail with standing water blocked by leaves.<br />
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cleared leaves to drain into stream<br />
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back to 1st blow down - had to saw in 3 places to remove<br />
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Carter Dome, Middle Carter & Wildcat "A" March 2017 </h2>
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#'s 39, 40, 41 of my Winter New Hampshire 4,000 footers (7 to go)</h2>
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First and only winter hike this season. I have a temporary transportation problem but I was able to do this 5 day trip completely by bus from Providence Rhode Island to Pinkham Notch N. H. Once a day there is a Concord Coach Line bus that runs from Berlin New Hampshire to South Station Boston and return, with stops at the AMC Pinkham Notch Visitor Center (PNVC) . A perfect place to start off hikes to the Wildcats , the Carters, or especially Mt Washington (maybe next time). My perfect plan was;</div>
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<b>Day1: </b> Catch a bus from home or providence RI, bus up to Pinkham Notch (PN) (leaves Boston at 4:15pm arrives at PN 8:15pm) and spend the first night at the AMC Joe Dodge Lodge at PN (unfortunately I would arrive too late for the included diner.) </div>
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<b>Day 2;</b> Catch the Breakfast buffet at 0630, road hike 4-5 miles down Rt 16 to Nineteen Mile Brook Trail head. Hike the 19 Mile Brook trail 3.8 miles (1991' elevation gain) up to the Carter Notch Hut, and spend the night at the Hut. </div>
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<b>Day 3:</b> Leaving much of my gear (weight) at the hut, hike from the hut to Carter Dome, S Carter and Middle Carter (three 4ks) along the Carter-Moriah trail and back to the hut (total of 9.2 miles and 3760' elevation gain/loss), This day of course had options to turn back after the first or second peak.<br />
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<b>Day 4: </b> Pack up all my gear and hike from the hut up to Wildcat ("A") over to wild cat "D" along the Wildcat Ridge Trail (1700' elevation gain, 950' loss). only A and D are 4k peaks but I would have to go over B & C with many PUDS (pointless up and downs). Then down the wildcat polecat ski trail ending up very close to PNVC in time for diner at PNVC and spend that night at JD lodge.</div>
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Finally <b>Day 5: </b>Up early grab the included breakfast buffet , catch the bus to Boston 8:15, hopefully arriving in Boston on time at 12:20 and catching the 12:30 Peter Pan bus to providence where my wife may pick me up or I can catch a Rhode Island bus almost to my door in Portsmouth RI. </div>
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At least that was the plan. I ended up doing 3 of the 5 peaks I wanted but for the most part stuck to the plan as far as buses and lodging go. I had to turn back at S. Carter skipping M. Carter because the trail to Middle wasn't broken out and I was already exhausted. on Day 4 I realized that I wasn't up to hiking up to Wildcat A and going over the ridge with my full pack and overnight gear, so I left my pack and most of my gear at the hut and slack packed up only to Wildcat A with two belly packs and returned to the hut for my gear then hiked back down Nineteen Mile Brook Trail. I'm also thinking that I may want to leave Wildcat "D" for a short 1 day hike next winter where I hike up carrying skis and boots and ski down. </div>
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Thursday 3/16: Had a 4 person bunk room all to myself the first night at Joe Dodge Lodge. Bus from Boston was one hour late getting to PN (traffic getting out of Boston) but I had missed diner anyway so no big deal.<br />
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Besides my pack and hiking stuff I brought a suitcase that they let me leave in their gear room the two nights I was up at Carter Notch.<br />
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Friday morning; After too much to eat at the PNVC breakfast buffet I started my road walk down Rt 16. Before I even got to wildcat ski area I got a lift from a guy on his way to an avalanche rescue training course in Gorham.<br />
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Nineteen mile Brook trail head. BTW the clock on my camera is about half an hour behind. this was about 7:30.</div>
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As predicted by a friend on VFTT the trail was broken out all the way to the hut, but not well compacted yet.<br />
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Part way up the trail, I was playing with the idea of cutting off to Carter Dome trail and trying to do Carter Dome before the Hut in case the weather changed and I could not do the Carters the next day. There was only one snowshoe track up Carter Dome. I tried following the trail for a while but the snow was too deep and the stride much too long for me and it would have been too hard to break trail all the way up plus there was no guarantee that the tracks went all the way to the dome and hut so I turned back and continued up nineteen mile to the hut. (this was a good decision).<br />
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close to the hut the trail became really undefined.</div>
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At the hut. The view looking up toward Carter Dome from the bunk house I was in. </div>
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Friday night I had a full 4 man bunk room to myself. There were only ~ 17 guest that night. Full capacity of the CN Hut is 40; two bunk houses with two 4 man and two six man bunk rooms each - I think.). </div>
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FYI there is no heat in the bunk houses. The first night it got down close to or at zero. My bag is only rated at 20 degrees . I also have a liner that is suppose to add 10 degrees but it was still pretty cold the first night. They have a fire going in the main hut from 4 until ~ 8:00 so I spent a lot of time there reading.<br />
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I got up early and moved down to the main hut before anyone else was up to cook some breakfast.<br />
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The kitchen is fully stocked with pots/pans fridge. Even seasoning, you only have to bring the actual food with you.<br />
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I think I actually started hiking from the hut to Carter Dome at 0645<br />
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Looking up towards Carter Dome.<br />
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The first section going up to the Dome is quite steep, and can be tough if there is any ice and you may need crampons. Luckily the big snow storm a few days earlier had left a good base of snow and I was able to manage with just snowshoes. Actually on all my hikes this weekend I carried crampons and micro spikes but stayed in the snowshoes on all the trails.<br />
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trail junction with rainbow trail. Near top of the dome. I think this is considered the peak but with the snow some other areas on the dome looked higher.<br />
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Carter dome <span style="background-color: yellow;">selfie.</span> I wouldn't see any other hikers until I got down to the col between the Dome and S. Carter (Zeta pass)<br />
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Almost 3 hours later; Peak Picture at South Carter. I didn't take any pictures between Carter Dome and South Carter. <br />
The story is; coming off Carter Dome, typically people go a little further to go over Mt Hight rather around it because of the great views on Hight and also you don't have to walk cross slope on the Carter Moriah (C-M) trail that bypass<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Hig</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">ht</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">.</span> H</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">owever there was really only one set of tracks off the north of Carter Dome and no sign of any broken out trail over Hight. That section of the C-M on the side slope of Hight was hell, with only one set of snowshoe tracks on soft snow. It was a hard slog getting though it and down to zeta pass where the C-M trail which continues along the ridge meets the carter Dome trail which goes down and joins nineteen mile trail (maybe I'll post a map here later) . Actually when I got to Zeta pass the C-M trail up to S. Carter wasn't broken out, but 5 people coming up behind me from the Dome passed and continued on breaking the trail. With a larger group of hikers its easier to break trail because you rotate the point man in shifts. I ended up way behind the group and just blindly followed the path they were making. It turned out that they had lost the actual trail and were just meandering off in the wrong direction. They realized it the same time as I did and were backtracking to try and find the blazes on the actual trail (The Carter-Moriah is part of the Appalachian trail and should be well blazed with white blazes (paint swaths on the trees). I checked my GPS against a saved track and realized we were quite a bit off of the trail. I bushwhacked to where I thought the trail should be while the others backtracked and found their error. We both ended back on the actual trail. By this time I was really exhausted and had a pretty hard time getting up the steeper sections to S. Carter. The trail wasn't broken out from South to Middle Carter, but even if it was I still would have turned around<span style="background-color: white;"> at <span style="background-color: yellow;">that </span></span>poi</span>nt. I think there was one couple that did continue on.<br />
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Per my GPS started today's hike at 6:31am and returned to the hut at 6:52 pm,only 8.2 miles in 12 hrs 20 minutes. That may be a slow record for me. Slow hiking but also hundreds of 30 second stops to catch my breath. GPS says that only 6 hrs of the 12 hrs was moving time. I was having a hard time of it that day particularly after reaching the Dome. I think I had slipped back into AFIB near the beginning of this hike. (I was electro cardiaversion (zapped) back into normal rhythm 6 months ago). that combined with my emphysema made it a real tough day - but worth it.<br />
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When I got back to the hut it was pretty much at full capacity with 36 guest. including a few boys scout troops. I had two new bunk mates but never actually met them. I saw there gear when I returned to the bunk room then went down to the main hut to fix dinner and get some warmth and when I returned they were both asleep in their bags. Then I left for my last day hike before they were up.<br />
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<b>Day 4:</b><br />
I woke up feeling much better than the night before, but as I mentioned before still thought doing all the wildcats with a full pack would be too hard for me. (going up to A is also fairly steep) so I just packed two belly packs with water, snacks and my crampons and "slack packed" up to wild cat "A". it was also very overcast with just a light snow when I started. From the following you can see that I hit the peak in the fog with no views.<br />
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This is suppose to be a scenic Vista just off a spur trail off the ridge right near the peak of Wildcat . Completely fogged in at this point.<br />
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I think that's the official peak a few feet into the spruce.<br />
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Background of fog into the "vista"<br />
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Of course halfway back down the fog lifted and it was a beautiful day. The same thing happened when I had done the Wild cats in <a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2012_10_09_archive.html">Oct of 2012</a>.<br />
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Wasn't looking forward to walking the 4-5 miles back to PNVC mostly up hill, but within 5 minutes I again was offered a lift. This time by a local fellow with his huge and friendly newfeee looking for a good place to take a walk on this beautiful day. Again this would have been a great day to hike Mt Washington, and judging by the parked cars overflowing the PNVC lot and both sides of rt 16, it must have been crowded on those trails today. Again I had 4 person bunk room all to my self. Talking to the staff the only days they really fill up the rooms in the winter are Saturday nights.<br />
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Monday morning at the breakfast buffet. Only about 5 people there. breakfast starts at 6-6:30 and my bus isnt until 8:07<br />
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3-D sculptured map of the Presidentials at the PNVC gift shop.<br />
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On the bus. It was only 10 minutes late , but I was getting worried.- Only one bus back all day.</div>
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It was a great 4 night trip , not having the long drive in traffic up and back from NH. The buses are actually pretty comfortable. Even though its the end of the official winter peak season, I may just try and do a another bust trip and do mt Washington before the snow's gone. Ive never hiked Washington from the east side. Otherwise my next trip north will probably be to do trail work on <a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2016_11_12_archive.html">Black Pond trail</a>.</div>
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<b>Black Pond Trail Maintenance Fall 2016 - 11/12/16 posted 3/25/17</b></h2>
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<b>At the end of last year I volunteered to adopt this short trail. Black Pond Trail is often used in the winter to start a bushwhack approach to <a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2014_03_08_archive.html">Owls Head </a>and starts off of Lincoln Woods trail. Black Pond trail is only 0.8 miles each way but 2.6 miles in on Lincoln woods. So its only 5.2 miles round trip to the pond. I drove up to NH and did the required one day training, then last October went up and did some pre-winter season trail maintenance. Mostly trimming brush that was starting to grow into the trail and sawing up and moving blow downs - a few good size ones. Below are some photos from that trip.</b><br />
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A section of the old track. Lincoln woods trail used to be a railroad track bed.<br />
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<b> Lincoln Woods is a wide straight trail. Well used by locals for walking dogs and cross country skiing in the winter.</b></div>
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Large Birch blow-down across LW trail. You can see a few of the RR ties here too.</div>
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Here she is - the start of Black Pond Trail.</div>
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My first blow down to clear.</div>
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At Black Pond. Go to <b><a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2014_03_08_archive.html">Owls Head </a> to see it frozen with an igloo on it.</b><b></b></div>
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More blow-downs. I left quit a few on the way in to hit on the a way back .</div>
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This was the biggest one I cleared just before the pond. needs two cuts but the first one wore me out so I went on to a few smaller ones before tackling the second cut.<br />
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This is the big one again after I made the second cut and rolled it aside. I was pretty proud of myself on this one. If there are blow-downs too big to handle we are suppose to notify the rangers and they will contact someone to come in with a chain saw.<br />
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There were two high blow-downs. I think this is the one I could actually get at.</div>
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The next high one down the trail is the one I had to leave. It shouldn't be a problem for winter snowshoers unless there is reaally a lot of snow this winter. If its still there I may tackle it in the spring.</div>
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Back on Lincoln Woods trail. I made a half ass try at cutting through this but didn't get far (not my trail though). I reported it to the rangers at the LW trail-head They said it must have just come down because it wasn't there the day before and that they would contact a team to take care of it.</div>
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Think I did a pretty good job today. Not a big or hard trail, but at least I'm giving a little back. Makes me really appreciate the volunteers clearing the harder mountain trails. </div>
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I'll come back after the spring thaw and make another pass. There is a few blazes that probably need a little new paint.</div>
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Mt Adams 38/48 NH4KW </h3>
<b>Last official Winter hike of the season (10 NH4K winter peaks left for next winter - or the next). I had originally planned to try and finish the season near the end of the week with a overnight hike to the Carters and Wildcats staying at the Carter Notch Hut. However the forecast changed and the opportunity came up to do a president with mild weather and little wind on Wednesday.</b><br />
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<b>Again I drove up the night before and slept in my truck in Gorhams Walmart parking lot. Also found out that there is a 24 hour Irvins gas station near by. Very convenient for an early morning coffee and muffin and head call before the hike.</b><br />
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<b>I had tried Mt Adams on Feb 28th but had to turn around at 5000 ft because of bad visibility and high winds. The peak is at 5800' and only about half a mile from where I turned back. That time I came up Valley Way trail which had less steep sections of ice than the more direct Airline trail. This time I decided to go up Airline trail with crampons (sort of) and whack over to Valley if it got to bad. It turned out that Airline still had very steep sections of solid ice, but once I changed from micro-spikes to my Hillsound pro crampons I could trek directly up the ice flows with confidence. Coming down would have been more difficult so I descended by way of the still icey but not as steep Valley Way. Hillsounds aren't considered to be "full" crampons (2" spikes vs 3") but where fine for these conditions. I almost had the whole mountain to myself that day which surprised me because it was a perfect 1 day weather window. The only other sole I saw on the trails that day was this speed hiker whom started from the same trailhead two hours later than me but had climbed both Jefferson and Adams when caught up to me near Madison hut and said that he was going to knock off that Madison before heading down. He then passed me again an hour later after doing Madison. Said he was in training for some peaks in Perue.</b><br />
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<b>Anyway this turned out to be a great day for doing a president. Winds where only forecast for 15-25 mph but I don't think they got higher than 10. I was down to shorts and short sleeves by the time I got above treeline. I did have to put a windbreaker on for a while when a cooler cloud passed over.</b><br />
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Started about 1 hour before sunrise ~0530. This just as it got light enough to put away the headlamp. Icy trails but still manageable with micro-spikes.<br />
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More ice but too many rocks to consider crampons yet.<br />
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Just out of the scrub and into the alpine area. took off crampons here and bare booted for a short while, but then it got icy and changed back to micro-spikes for the final leg to the summit.<br />
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There was a great rainbow descending down into Kings Ravine.</div>
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Some undercast rolling in.</div>
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Mt Adams - still a good hike left</div>
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This is very near were i had to turn back on my last attempt.</div>
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Looking back at Madison with Madison Hut in the Col between Madison and Adams</div>
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Looking down into Kings Ravine. This is part of the reason I turned back last time. One step too far in the fog, or a push from a wind gust in the wrong direction and it would be all over.<br />
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Mt Madison again.</div>
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Just a thin coat of ice over the boulders leading to the summit from the freezing rain the day before. Just enough to need the micro-spikes.<br />
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As I was working my way over the boulder field cairn to cairn, the sun was melting the thin ice and I kept hearing thuds were big sheets of ice was being shed off flat surfaces.</div>
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Getting close but a lot of boulder hopping left.</div>
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Finally at the summit. Just as I got there a cloud started rolling in and took away the views. Jefferson and Washington were already in clouds. but I had time to hang around the summit for ~30 minutes and grab a bite and enjoy views North until the cloud started to engulfed Adams too.<br />
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It was a little tricky going from a cairn to cairn on the way down in the fog but not a big concern because I had good compass bearings if I needed them<br />
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It started clearing again before i got to the start of Valley Way trail near Madison Hut.</div>
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I started down Valley Way with micro-spikes then changed to crampons when I got to steep ice flows - then back to spikes when the rocks started outnumbering the ice sections - then to bare boots when most of the ice was gone -then back to spikes after falling a few times on little ice patches hidden under mud. between stopping so many times for changing traction and for changing layers for temp control, I don't think I've ever had a hike that I've had my pack on and off so many times. If my GPS is correct, the hike took me 11 hours but only 6:10 moving and 4:50 stopped. </div>
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Near the end of the hike, rather than take Valley Way all the way to the trail head, I took an alternate route that travels along the banks of a river with many sections identified as water falls (really more like rapids). It was a great day to end the season.</div>
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Three Carters and Two Wildcats that I still hope to do as a two day overnight hike like I did in October of 2014. And two really long hikes because of roads closed in the winter. Zealand and Carrigain. Being a fair weather hiker (relatively) this may still take more than one more winter but that's okay as long as my health holds up.<br />
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<b>This will probably be my last post for a while. Being a shameless peakbagger I may not hike any substantial peaks until next winter when i resume my NH4K winter list (though the NE111 list is tempting :) ). I plan on shifting my effort to get in shape for a 1.7 mile swim across Narragansett Bay in August as <a href="http://savebay.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1154650&lis=0&kntae1154650=AF3394088F864695BB97D15A6F9CA622&supId=409809647&emaillogid=8756407401">1slowswimmer</a> :). and doing things around the house (like painting it) that I neglected last summer while finishing the NE100.</b><br />
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After a failed attempt of Mt Adams the week before, and a forecast of high winds on the presidents again, I decided to do this relatively easy hike that stays below tree-lines but is the longest drive of the NH 4K peaks from RI. I drove up the night before, stopped at Mr Pizza in Gorham for a beer and Lasagna, and slept in my truck in the Walmart parking lot ~ 15 minutes from the trail head in the Berlin Fish Hatchery preserve. I think I started near 0530 less than an hour before sunrise.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">No snow at the start of the trail - just lots of ice. wore my microspikes the whole hike. I'll try to remember to rotate this pic later.</span><br />
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The old fire wardin's house. Dropped my pack off here for the short hike over to the official summit</span><br />
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Mt Cabot Summit, marked by the piece of wood screwed into that tree. Just before I got to the Summit, <a href="http://dailey7779.blogspot.com/2016/03/funnel-into-bunnell-notch-mount-cabot.html">Chris Daily</a>, that know from VFTT came up behind me. Chris is a super fast hiker working on his grid list (each of the 48-4ks in each month of the year). He took this pic for me, we chatted for a few minutes, and he was gone like the wind.</span><br />
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Good views from the few openings along the trail<br />
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Last picture i took. This was a very easy hike compared to my others this winter. Partly because i hiked light with my summer pack with just the essentials and no snowshoes or crampons.</div>
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North & South Twin Feb- 2-2016<br />
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Took this at the parking area to get a time stamp but forgot to raise the flash. Started the hike at 0500.</div>
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The winter route only crosses Little River once, crossing was just areley ice bridged.<br />
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This is as far as I got last March on my failed attempt of the Twins<br />
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Note this is only 7 minutes after the last picture. If I had only been able to get past that one ledge it would have been an easy walk to the top. Thing is I probably wouldnt have had the energy left to go onto S. Twin since i had broken trail most of the way.<br />
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At the junction to the overlook near or at N. Twin</div>
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Great views from this overlook near N. Twin if it was cklear</div>
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A few icedover boulders on the hike over to S. twin</div>
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S. Twin. not sure if this boulder or another is the actual peak.</div>
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This is probably the true peak.</div>
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Little River on the way back</div>
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Done 1548 10+ hrs on hike. This is the parking area for the start of the winter route.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Friday 1/15/16 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Did these last two peaks on Franconia Ridge a week after doing Lafayette & Lincoln. Just like the previous week, I drove up the night before and slept at a nearby trailhead in the back of my truck. Because I finished after dark the week before, even though I started at 3 am, I started even earlier and started on the trail at 2 am. I finished around 3 pm (13 hours). I think I figured out another reason why I am taking longer than I estimate - it's because I am hiking so many hours in the dark and my speed is even slower than usual. No other real option since the days are so short, I'm so slow, and I would much rather be hiking in the dark at the beginning of the hike than at the end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The problem with this hike is that it is an in and out so I have to summit Liberty twice. I made it easier on myself by stashing my main pack with my snowshoes and crampons at the liberty spring campsite, just below the ridge line, and continued to Liberty and the Flume with just my small bug-out pack and a smaller belly bag. Unfortunately the snow between the two peaks was a bit too deep for just micro-spikes and I probably could have used my snowshoes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Again there was more people on the trail than I would have expected for a weekday winter hike. Nine or so I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This brings me up to 34 of the 48 New Hampshire 4k winter peaks(NH4kW). Since I try not to hike below zero F or high winds (at least on alpine peaks) it will take me few more winters to get through them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: calibri;">Finally got around to uploading my pics for this hikee, but its been too long for me to recall why I took some of them:</span><br />
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Time stamp at the trail-head, another early start. starting up liberty spring trail.<br />
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junction of liberty spring trail and franconia ridge trail<br />
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mt liberty summiyt<br />
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i dropped a line down a stteepboluder below liberty to assist me when i returned<br />
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flume summit pic, fogged in by now with no views<br />
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back at liberty<br />
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">back at the trailhead with time to spare before sunset. 12.5 hour hike</span><br />
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Friday Jan 8 2016<br />
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2nd winter hike of the season. Did the loop up to Lafayette on the Bridle Path along the ridge to Lincoln, and Little haystack, then down Falling Waters trail. My very first 4k hike in 2011 did the same route but in reverse.<br />
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Drove up to NH Thursday night. Got 4 hrs sleep in the back of my truck near the trail-head. Woke up earlier than I wanted to but could not get back to sleep so I started on the trail at 03:00 am. turns out that was a good thing because I still finished just after dark.<br />
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AMCs Green leaf hut. closed for the winter still ~1000 ft up to Lafayette from here.<br />
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just getting out of the dwarf spruce and into the alpine area.<br />
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Summit of Mt Lafayette (#31 winter NH 4K peak), Could have sworn I took a selfie, but I didn't. Lafayette(5280') and Lincoln(5089') are the 6th and 7th highest NH peak.. That's Mt Washington in the background.<br />
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Took this for the time stamp, guess I spent 30 minutes on the summit, catching my breath, hydrating, and eating some PB&J sandwiches.<br />
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Franconia ridge trail heading to Mt Lincoln with at least three bumps along the way<br />
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one of the bumps, I think this is called N. Lincoln Peak<br />
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Two hikers passed me between the hut and lafayette, more coming up behind me here.<br />
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Lots of people on the ridge today - especially for a winter weekday. I suspect a lot of people played hooky today because of the great forecast and impending weekend storm.<br />
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Looking back at Lafayette<br />
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summit picture taking by another hiker<br />
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Summit pic on Mt Lincoln (#31/48 NH4KW). Again Mt Washington in the background. I probably should have tried for Washington instead today. Don't get many excellent weather days like this in the Winter<br />
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looking South; a couple more bumps then Little Haystack(where I go down), Liberty and Flume Mts.<br />
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Little Haystack - Where I get off the ridge and go down Falling Water trail.<br />
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Looking south on the ridge toward Liberty & Flume mountains. I still have to do these two in the winter. Some other day, I'm running out of time and steam. Actually I already ran out of steam half between the hut and Lafayette.<br />
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Quite a bit of Ice down low on Falling Waters trail, but not quite enough to make the river crossings easy. Had to check the ice for safe crossing paths.<br />
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Some great views iced over falls. I am trying to download a video to the site but i'm not sure it will work.<br />
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Odd tree with three trunks.<br />
Last picture I took. I ended up finishing just after dark ~ 5;00pm, 14 hrs - incredibly slow, glad i started early.<br />
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here are some pictures of areas i might be referencing. Also many/most of the pics are just a reference for myself.<br />
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1. Nimble 20 on trailer, Infinity - my Catalina-30 in the background.<br />
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2. the tabernacle is not mounted to the boat yet its just sitting there<br />
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4.no swing down part of rudder<br />
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7. out of foucus, i'll replace later<br />
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8. i pulled the cushions out of the v-bearth , have a small leak from the i'm tracking down<br />
I think i have found it. there is some damage to the side panel.<br />
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9.bad stain from rusty can, havent attempted to clean it yet</div>
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10 pipe is lead for the swing keel line. pipe nipple may be an access to push down the keel with some sort of dowel - so i have been told.I've also been told you may be able to pour biocide or something to minimize groeth on Center board<br />
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11 tiller - needs to be bolted to the ??<br />
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12 motor well<br />
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13 first attempt at rigging the mizzen<br />
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14 mast head<br />
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15. Wat is the black fairlead for?<br />
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16; broken mast light<br />
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17 cracked base plate on alum mast base, i've decide to remove and use nuts&bolts with backing instead of screws.<br />
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19. i assume this brass thing is for the anchor line<br />
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20. solar powered vent - not working<br />
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21. another view of the anchor line access (I assume)<br />
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22. thinking about replace wire rope on the trailer pulley<br />
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23. electric panel<br />
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24 im assuming the battery stows here under the companion way<br />
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25 installed mast step, and what i think is the backing plate for the tabernacle (never installed)<br />
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26. mast step not bolted to mast base yet<br />
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27. havent started looking at the motor yet<br />
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28 tabernacle that i ma not going to use<br />
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30 nimble 20 on trailer and dog painted on bow . LOLits his reflection. Infinity in the background.<br />
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31. Next 3 pics not about the boat. Came across an offsprey on more morning 5 mile walk wasnt sure what it was at this point.<br />
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32. HE had just caught a baby rabbit (i'm not sure if it was dead yet). but he was determined not to keave it even when i got as close as 3 feet.<br />
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33,. kept his yes on me as i walked past and down the trail<br />
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34. removed.<br />
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35. someone really did a hack job on the mast putiing hole in for What? this may have been when they added the pipe sections for the tabernacle, was it done at the factor r by aprevious owner.<br />
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36. mast power lead and antenna lead. I think the power lead is way to big. and i dont think is hooked up to the anchor light yet.</div>
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37. port side of mast. I'm assuming the block is for the jib halyard/.</div>
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38. more hack jobwhy two holes?<br />
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39. mast head with cover plate removed, I may have to pull completley to run wires.<br />
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40. mast step that i am going to use. I found the 5" pins<br />
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41 broken anchor light<br />
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42. rudder gudgeon and pintals, (spell?) seem alitle wimpy.<br />
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43. cracked mast base (cast alum). I removed it by drilling through 5 pop rivets<br />
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44. mast base plat removed cast holes seem really too deep for pop rivots, i may tap holes and screw back on.<br />
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45. boom starboard side miszzen boom (sprit) beside it.<br />
46 boom port side TBD<br />
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47. WHAT IS THIS, there were two that came with the boat but i have no idea what they are. basically a screw incased in a lead cylinder. looks like a vice grip was need to remove it. fo something.<br />
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This was my 30th NH 4k winter hike, though it was more like spring or fall day. No snow, almost no ice and above 40 degrees. The only thing making it more difficult than a summer hike is the extra 3 miles of road hike because Galehead Loop Rd was closed. Actually it would have been a lot easier with some snow to smooth out the trails. This was a very disappointing hike for me because on the way back down I actually told myself I was through with peak-bagging. The problem was the almost continual shortness of breath, even while descending. On the steeper uphill sections I was only good for less then a minute between stops to catch my breath. Now that its been a few day, I'm starting to think I will try to keep going. I also have an upcoming appointment to try and get out of Afib, so maybe that will help. I really think the problem is a combination of my emphysema and Afib because I don't think my emphysema has progressed enough to have the effect I'm feeling. <br />
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I have no pictures for this hike. When I took out my camera near the beginning of the hike to try and take a picture of the full Christmas moon it was dead. I still haven't been able to revive it so it may be more than the batteries.<br />
The entire hike was ~14 miles including the 3 miles of level road walk. I started two hours before sun-up at ~ 0430 and finished 12 hrs later. Originally I was planning to also bag at least South Twin and optimistically N. Twin. South Twin would have only added 1.7 miles but an additional 1200 feet of elevation gain and I didn't have it left in me after doing Galehead. If I keep hiking I'll have to try and do it with North Twin. I had a failed attempt at North Twin last year when I was only ~200 ft from the summit.<br />
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No pics this time but here is my track that I uploaded to <a href="http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/spatialArtifacts.do?event=setCurrentSpatialArtifact&id=11828750">Wikiloc</a><br />
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Zoom in of track: You can see that adding S. Twin would have been a lot more elevation, and that coming in from N. Twin may be easier.Though it will likely be a snowshoe hike by the time (and if) I do it.<br />
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</b> This was a very hard but enjoyable bushwack from Mt Carrigain with my grandson Kris.<br />
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<b>Time line</b>:<br />
0630: Trailhead off Sawyer river Road<br />
1200: Mt Carrigain via Carrigain Notch trail and Signal Ridge trail (5.5 hrs)<br />
1530: Col between Carrigain & Vose Spur via downhill bushwhack (3.5 hrs)<br />
1600: Vose Spur peak via uphill bushwack (0.5 hrs)<br />
1800: Back on Carrigain Notch Trail via downhill bushwack (2.5hrs)<br />
2030: Back at Trailhead via near level section of Carrigain Notch trail (2.5)<br />
Total: 14 hr; 8 hrs on trail, 5 hrs of bushwack, 1 hr peak times & breaks.<br />
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</b> We drove up from Rhode Island the night before and camped at the Jigger Johnson campground on tne Kancamagus. This was my last NEHH and my grandson Kris agreed to try another bushwhack with me. He had done "<a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2015_07_03_archive.html">Peak above the Nubble</a>" with me the month before. I kind of felt guilty about doing peaks on my list without helping him with his NH4k list lately so I decided to push for a much longer and harder hike to include Mt Carrigain for him. Most people hike Vose Spur by going in on Carrigain Notch trail and starting their bushwhack at a large boulder 4 miles down the trail and go up and back via a combination of bushwhacking and following herd-paths (mostly near the top). For those who want to add Carrigain you can continue the bushwhack from Vose to Carrigain then come back down via signal Ridge trail or do the reverse by starting with Carrigain. After considering advice from various websites I decided to do Carrigain first so that mostly all of my heavy bushwhacking would be downhill and gravity would help me push through the spruce. The risk would be that if I ran low on time that I may have to pass on Vose Spur. All in all everything went nearly to plan and we both had a hard but great day. No mishaps other than losing a trekking pole in the 1st 0.25 miles of the whack from Carrigain.<br />
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Bushwhack from Carrigain to Vose Spur to Carrigain Notch trail. Followed ridge down from Carrigain. dropped east before the lower peak avoiding some uphill whacking and down to the talus field just above the col. hit it to far north and followed it south before jumping back into the thick- See next pic</div>
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Kris at the trailhead 0630 he chose to start out with long jeans that he would need for the bushwack. I started with shorts and changed to jeans and long sleeves when we reached Carrigain</div>
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Grey jay</div>
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This was Kris's first time feeding a Grey Jay. He ended up feeding him a whole pkg of crackers.<br />
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First view of my main objective (Vose Spur) from Signal Rridge.</div>
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Mt Lowell</div>
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Kris on open section of Signal Ridge with Vose Spur (left) and Mt Lowell in the background.<br />
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First good view of Carrigain from Signal ridge . We will be going down the right ridge from the tower on the bushwhack to Vose.</div>
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Zoom in of the towerf on Carrigain</div>
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Good view of Vose Spur from the tower. We will be coming up from the col on the left and down through that smaller upper Talus Field. On hindsight, from there we may have been able to come down through the lower larger field as well.<br />
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Survey marker below the tower.</div>
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Kris on the tower. This is his 9th NH4K peak.</div>
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Fairley clear day with only Mt Washington in the clouds.</div>
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This is where we broke into the clearing after a tough bushwhack down from Carrigain. The plan was to break through at that large talus field left and above us, but we veered too far north. we started down the ridge from Carrigain is some very thick spruce (where I lost one pole) but shifted north and picked up some herd paths for a short while.</div>
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Looking back up toward Carrigain. This was a tough Bushwhack. We were able to follow a few faint herd-paths but mostly it was just plowing through the spruce.</div>
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From here we followed along the lower edge of the large talus field until we found a good area to start our next section bushwhack up to Vose.</div>
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Lots of perfectly ripened blueberries in this area just below the talus and back along the open area of Signal Ridge. Kind of small though - a lot of work to get a mouthful.</div>
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This is about where we left the talus field and started back into the thick wooded area up Vose.<br />
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It was a fairly tough bushwhack up to Vose - had to climb one small cliff. But we finally intercepted a good heard path coming up from the way we would be going down. We dropped our packs there and just followed the path up to the top. Some kind soul had carried a beach chair up and left it at the peak.<br />
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My final New England Hundred Highest peak. Now all I have left is half of my Winter New Hampshire 4K list. And No, I will not attempt the NEHH in the winter list, so this is the last time I'll ever be in this spot. </div>
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This is Kris's 11th NEHH, 9 NH4K + Peak above the Nubble + VOse</div>
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Kris chilling out on the Spur</div>
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The first part of coming down was following herd-paths. I was hoping to take one that hit this talus field at the bottom of it, but we came out at the top so we had a long way down the unstable field climbing down backwards on all fours. Kris actually really enjoyed this part.<br />
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The left ridge line in the background is Signal Ridge trail that we had taken up to Carrigain.</div>
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After the talus field, it was a fairly easy combination of herd-paths and spruce whacking then eventually following a ravine until it came out at Carrigain Notch trail near the big boulder where most people that whack up from the notch typically start their whack. My main objective of the day was to get back to the notch trail before dark. We made it with just an hour to spare. If at any point I had thought we wouldn't make it I would have passed on Vose Spur.</div>
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Signs at the junction of Signal Ridge and Carrigain Notch trails. - End of the loop</div>
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1.7 easy miles of easy (but muddy) trail back to the trailhead</div>
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Back at the truck at 1830 after 14 hrs & 12 miles of hiking. I had predicted 13 hrs based on my slow uphill rate and the slower bushwhacking rate but forgot to allow for peak breaks. Now for some warm food, a celebratory beer (and soda), and a 4.5 hr drive home - ugh!<br />
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Dorset Peak 08/01/15</h2>
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This is my 99th of the New England Highest 100 peaks. One to go; Vose Spur New Hamsire.<br />
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I had scouted out the trail-head the previous day. Its along a backwoods road that starts at the end of Tower Hill road in Dorcet VT. Depending on your vehicle you can park at the end of Tower Hill Road or drive up the jeep path as far as you dare. There are several spots were you can park and turn around but there are some bad washed out areas that you would need a high clearance 4 wheel drive (like my tacoma). I think I saw one posting that suggested that you may be able to drive as far as the cabin (picture later) but that is no longer the case. Before reaching the cabin the road has been completely washed out and is now just a boulder filled dry river bed see the next couple of pictures.</div>
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I didn't realize it on the way in, but if you cross the "river bed" right were the road clearly ends.there is a new herd path on the left (west) side of the washed out road.</div>
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The previously mentioned "cabin" that every post takes a picture of is pretty much grown in this time of year.</div>
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Surprising there was evidence of recent tracks Some dirt bikes but some that looked like 4 wheel jeep or ATVs, i cant imagine that they came in the same way I did.<br />
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This section of the trail is not particularly difficult but it does have a pretty good continual grade to it.<br />
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About an hour and half into the hike (~ 1.25 miles from the hut). The trail/road comes to a "T" intersection. You take the right here. I noted that the road coming from the left looked in really good shape, and I wondered if that may be a better way up. I have since found out that that is another way up from Danby Four Corners and may be a easier grade but may be la bit longer. I was told by a hiker I met on the way down that that route is described in the Vermont Day Hikers guidebook..<br />
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Shortly you come to another split. the fastest, but steeper way is to the right, as someone has marked with branches.<br />
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This part of the trail, though in good shape is quite steep. Not "scramble" steep, but "puff-puff-puff" steep.<br />
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Part way up you come to a very tempting cairn and a herd path sharply to the right. The track that I had did take this path but rejoined the main path later. If you are just looking to bag Dorcet, dont take this turn. It leads to an old fire tower, that has fallen down, from what I here there are no viewsther anyway<br />
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Later you come to more choices but the signs say that the road to the right also goes to the tower and nowhere else (except maybe a the herd path back to the main trail at that cairn).<br />
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Right after the split to the tower is another split, at first I went right but it had many blowdowns and didn't seem right by my map so I turned back then noticed the door knob tree that i've seen in other post. You take the trail just to the right of the door knob.<br />
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Another junction with worn out signs, I think the trail to the left is from the that left fork8npictures back. Aany rate you can just make out the sign pointer that says that the summit continues on straight here.<br />
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Finally the weirdly written Dorset sign with the canister and rusted out metalpitcher. #99, One to Go!<br />
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More rusted out pans and pitchers. No mountain views to take pictures of so these show up in everyone's trip reports.<br />
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Back at the spot I parked the truck. I was tempted to see if I could drive all the way to where the road ends at the washout, but wasn't sure how much room there would be to turn around. It would not have saved much - only .25 miles of near level road.<br />
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Back at the <a href="http://www.swimmingholes.org/vt.html#DORSET QUARRY">White Marble Quary</a> off of Rt 30 at S. Dorset that I had stopped at yesterday when I was scouting out the trailhead after hiking the Jays. Took a few more pics changed into trunks and repeated my quarry jumps from yesterday. Just as I was leaving it started to rain and there were pretty good down pours for the first few hours of my drive home to R.I.<br />
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<b><u>Jay Peak and Big Jay</u> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">July 31 2015</span></h2>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Note to anyone who has or is planning a hike to Big Jay after this date: I lost a spare pair of prescription glasses along the herdpath to Big Jay, If found, please try to contact me and I'll pay S&H to get them back. - clementsmw@verizon.net</span></i></h3>
I drove up to Northern Vermont from Rhode Island Thursday afternoon (7/30/15). Arrived at a Mill Brook campground in Westfield VT at ~ 9pm (~ 6 hr drive). More of an RV park really. Got up at sunrise and drove to the VT Long Trail off of VT RT 242. Trail to Jay Peak is on the North side of VT242. Plenty of parking on the South side.<br />
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Started on this section of Vermont's Long Trail on the North side of Rt at 6am</div>
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Empty hut right near te start of the trail. Could I have slept here and saved $20?</div>
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Trail is a fairly easy grade and was dry. A few small scrambles just to make it interesting. All the way up to Jay Peak the trail us well blazed with the Long Trail white blazes</div>
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Steps over the water lines (for man made snow) where it first crosses a ski trail. Jay Peak is a big Ski area. from here you could walk along the ski trail to the top or follow the blazes over some boulder scrambles. I followed the blazes on the way up.</div>
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Starting to get some nice views now.</div>
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Looking down at the ski trails and resort at the bottom.</div>
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The road to the left bypasses the actual peak, I took it on te way back</div>
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Some memorial benches near the top.</div>
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The Peaks National Geographical Survey marker.</div>
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#98 Peak Selfie. Wind picked up once I got out of the woods and I had to put on a jacket. Note my glasses here. I forgot my croakers this trip and lost them on the whack to Big Jay.</div>
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Once past the peak you keep following the white blazes along the Long trail until it leads you behind this fence -</div>
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Then shortley to a well defined split. The Long trail continues to the right. The left is the start of herd path to Big Jay (FYI Jay Peak is higher than Big Jay)</div>
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I guess I didn't take any pictures along the herd path,but it was easy to follow and had many many deep soggy mud bogs. This rescue sled is in the small clearing at the peak of Big Jay</div>
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Selfie at Big Jay, I have lost my glasses somewhere through the mud bogs. I walked slowly on the way back to Jay crouched over looking for them but no luck. Probably buried in the mud now. h well they were only an older pair I use for hiking.</div>
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Another view of the sled It really is a long and heavy sled. Not sure why someone dragged it here. I I Think there used to be a peak canister at this tree. It was starting to get overcast now and my lense got wet somehow.</div>
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A better view of the opining in the fence that the LT goes through.</div>
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Having already bagged Jay i took the road bypassing the peak and picked the LT back up at those wooden steps. At this point it was overcast pretty bad and threatening to rain - no views. </div>
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By the time I got down the sun had came back out. Great, because I was thinking about not going onto Dorcet if the weather turned. I saw no other hikers on the way up but on the way down i first crossed a LT thru-hiker (Gumball) that would finish today, The Northern end of the LT is at the Canadian border 10 miles north of Jay Peak. The start of the LT is coincident with the Appalachian Trail (AT) where it crosses the Mass/VT line. Shortly after passing Gumball, I crossed three LT "Section Hikers" also finishing the LT today. [section hikers do the LT in sections rather than continuous like Thru Hikers. The same terms are used for AT hikers. then on the way down i must have crossed a dozen of day hikers just going up to Jay Peak for the day. Many of the hikers (including gumball and the section hikers) said they thought that there was a restaurant that was suppose to be open at the peak near the top of the Tram, but when i was there it seemed deserted and the Tram wasn't running. maybe i was just too early. </div>
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After finishing the Jays I drove down to Dorset to Emerald Lake State Park. Vermont won't let you make reservations for only one day,but I had called them and they assured me I could get a walk-in site. I pitched my tent and set up my free standing hammock. Then took a short drive to the "trail-head" I had planned to use for Dorset Peak on the way back. Dorset does not have any official trails but you can't really call it a bushwhack or even a herd path because there are numerous backwoods roads still used by bikers and probably ATVs and snowmobiles. The trick is making the right turns. I happen to have a GPS track of one possible route On the way to the trailhead i passed a cool looking quarry with dozens of people swimming and jumping off the sides. This is right off VT Rt 30. I had seen pictures of this on someone else s hiking blog, So on the way back i stopped took some pictures. Changed into my trunks that I had brought just in case and tried out some of the jumps. This is a deep privately owned quarry.</div>
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Note the pile of Marble blocks already harvested from the quarry.</div>
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There are ladders strung at various spots. this jumping location is one of the more popular high jumps. I did this one after jumping in from where I'm taking the pictures.</div>
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Further to left is an even higher jumping spot. I tried this one too but only after talking to the kids there to make sure there was plenty of clearance. There are some spots where there are boulders and pipes not too far below the surface but I made sure I jumped in the same spots as the locals. It was a blast</div>
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After 3 progressively higher jumps and a refreshing swim, I headed back to the site and cooked up some hot dogs and canned spaghetti. I ended up sleeping out of the tent in my hammock, surpriseling there where no bugs to bother me.</div>
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East Sleeper 07/17/15:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I took the Downes Brook Trail off of the Kancamangus
highway. This route was was 1.4 miles longer than taking the Blueberry Ledge
approach which I took when I did Whiteface Mt (twice), but had almost 1200 less feet of elevation
gain, so the book times are about equal. It is also a longer drive, but I like
driving on the Kanc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Total elevation gain
is about 2800’ and distance is about 12.2 miles. This approach is different than
most of my peak hikes in that it is a fairly uniform grade all the way to the top.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I started at the trailhead at ~ 0615 on the Downes Brook Trail but didn't take a picture. Note the time stamp on my pictures are still 12 hours off. The trailhead is shared with a few small loops and is at the end of a short gravel road that starts almost directly across from the WMNF Passaconaway Campground. Plenty of parking room.<br />
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First of many river crossings (over 12 I think, though the AMC guide says 9). All crossing were fairly easily rock hopped, though I did manage to slip and fall in up to my knees on the first two. I just wasn't be careful enough to avoid slippery rocks. I finally got my "sea legs" after the first two.<br />
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I had dry socks in my pack but knowing I had many crossings yet I decided to wait until later to change. They dried out enough not be a problem, and I never changed them.<br />
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Another crossing.<br />
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Start of the trail is a very easy grade old logging road that is also used by X-skiers in the winter<br />
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and another crossing--<br />
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Some of the crossings even gave signs where to cross and had small cairns (piles of rocks) on each side to help tell where the trail continues.<br />
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and another crossing-- No views of mountains on this hike so I just took pictures of crossings. That's not quite true. You do get some glimpses of Whiteface rising to the East of the river through the trees but not clear enough to really take any pictures - The camera just want top focus on the leaves<br />
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Interesting step-over blow-downs<br />
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A few views of cascades higher up on the trail. nice to hear the water flow throughout most of the hike.<br />
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I only took this picture because I want to find out the name of these vines. I've run into these quite a few times in the whites - several bushwhacks (PATN, Scar RIDGE) were made more difficult by having to push through these guys that can get quite thick. Since posting this I've been told that these are hobblebush.<br />
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Higher up parts of the trail are quit rocky, and are provably rivers after heavy rainstorms - but still never really steep.<br />
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About a 1/4 mile from the top of Downes Brook Trail where it meets Kate Sleeper Trail it starts getting interesting with many, many blow-downs across the trail. Some you have top crawl through and others make it difficult to stay on trail.<br />
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The trail is straight ahead under all theses trees.<br />
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More crawling under and through.<br />
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At this final crossing it was difficult to tell if the trail crossed the stream or continued to the right under the blow-downs. It did cross the stream. [picture actually taken on the way down]<br />
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Downs Brook and ends where it crosses Kate Sleeper trail. To the left (East) is a route to Whiteface Mountain (one of the NH 4ks) and to the right is East Sleeper and the Tripyramids. I took a 15 minute lunch break here. <br />
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An incredible amount of trail-work was done along the Kate Sleeper to clear massive fir blow-downs, which I assume were blown down during hurricane Irene.<br />
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Interesting rock.<br />
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East sleeper is a viewless peak at the end of a very short spur trail off of Kate-Sleeper. You can tell how easy this hike was by comparing my picture to those taken at other peaks where I look exhausted.<br />
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View from the Peak.<br />
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Back at the Trail Head. ~ 5 hours up and 3 hrs down for an easy12 mile hike<br />
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07/03/15 Peak Above The Nubble PATN (#95/100 NEHH)<br />
Did a bushwhack of one of my last few NEHH with my grandson Kris.<br />
This peak doesn't even have its own name. It is a peak near and a bit higher than another which is nicknamed Nubble Peak (its formal name is Haystack but there are several Haystack Mts in NH).<br />
The trail (but there is no real trail) starts off of Haystack Road near Twin Mountain NH. It is a short hike distance-wise of 4.0 miles. We took 4.4 miles with our wanderings and following wrong herd paths. But, being a bushwhack, it still took us almost 8 hrs. As far as bushwhacks go it really wasn't too bad. We managed to avoid any real bad spruce areas and only had to contend with vines and some cliffs. We had a GPS track which we sort of followed and coordinates for areas to avoid. Going up we ran into a wall of cliffs which we decided to climb rather than circle as the track we had did. I'll try and add to the hike description later. (Or Not) but will post the few pictures I took now. this was my 95th NE Hundred Highest . Only three in VT left (two Jays and Dorcet), and East Sleeper and Vose Spur in NH. I am saving Vose Spur (which is a tougher bushwhack). Maybe I can get Kris to do Vose Spur with me if i can convince him that there wont be many bugs ;)<br />
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I just noticed that the date stamp on my camera is 12 hrs off: 07/02 20:10 is07/03 , 07/03 08:10 00:02 is 07/03 12;02<br />
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Hike starts at an old logging road off of Haystack Road marked by three boulders. We cut into the woods ~ .25 miles up the logging road. </div>
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Not sure why i took this pick, but this is typical of the woods we bushwhacked through.</div>
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Kris up ahead waiting on my slow butt as usual.</div>
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Lots and lots of Moose skat. I was hoping to find another shed antler but no luck.</div>
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Some views behind us at an opening on the way up.</div>
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Some sort of steep areas, I forgot to get a pic of the cliffs which was a fun climb.</div>
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The following pics are views from an open area just beyond the peak where we ate lunch. We actually hit the summit near 12:30.</div>
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Kris, not happy about the flies buzzing around the top.</div>
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My summit Pic #95/100 NEHH</div>
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Kris #8/100 NEHH, his foirst peak not on the NH4k list</div>
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Back at the grown in logging road, 5 minutes from our finish.</div>
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Kris, did his usual great job of conversing with me on the long ride home - LOL</div>
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Baldpate Maine (East Peak). Second attempt after failed attempt in Dec 2014.<br />
This was the last of my NEHH in Maine I had attempted it in Dec but due to a late start and too much unbroken snow I had to turn around just past West Peak.<br />
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This leaves 6 peak for my NEHH list. Three in VT; Jays and Dorcet which I hope to do in one 2 day trip, and three in New Hampshire; East Sleeper, Peak above the Nubble (a fairly easy bushwhack I think, and Vose Spur which is should be a tough Bushwhack. <br />
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Trailhead for the AT from Rt 26 to Baldpate. Parking and trailhead of AT to OldSpeck on other side of Rt 26.<br />
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First spring flower I've seen (Trillium)</div>
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Lots of blowdowns blocking the trail. most had herd path wal- arounds or enough branches broken off to crawl through or under.</div>
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Lots of stone steps along the AT.</div>
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Hiker registration box (MATC) Maine Appalachian Trail Club</div>
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It was tough picking the trail back up after going around this mess.</div>
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I only took this pick to compare it to one I took last December, this is where I ran out of any sign of tracks in the snow. The trail goes up the rock steps on the right. See below for December picture.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vp5mTvhXUEo/VLQyLDGJM0I/AAAAAAAAGEE/cGEnbnh3JA4/s1600/IMG_3281.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vp5mTvhXUEo/VLQyLDGJM0I/AAAAAAAAGEE/cGEnbnh3JA4/s1600/IMG_3281.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
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Top of West Peak</div>
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Top of West Peak</div>
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Going Off West peak to the valley between it and the East Peak. This is about as far as I got last December.<br />
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View to the North</div>
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Bog bridges through the marshy col between peaks.</div>
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Broken bog bridge. Mud was deeper than the tops of my boots.</div>
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East Peak of Baldpate #96/100 for my NEHH, only 3 in VT and 3 in NH left.</div>
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Ladders going up the east side of West peak. Only the AT would have a ladder for this easy scramble. <br />
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Tree just above the Table Top lean-to now horizontal, sign is still pointing in the right direction though. It was a huge log jam on the AT right were the goes to the lean-to .<br />
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looking up the river that the trail initially followed and crossed several times</div>
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faint sight of the trail here</div>
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No sign of the trail here </div>
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The Presidents taken from the spot that I finally gave up at.</div>
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I think the trail goes up to the left here along the row of spruce, but the snow was too deep and too soft me to get far after 2-3 tries. I was told later that if I had gotten past this point the .25 miles left to the peak should have been easy.<br />
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looking up from the highest point I got to (4500 ft - less than 200 vertical ft from the top)</div>
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Last picture I took after eating before heading back down - very disappointing I was hoping to add 2 or 3 peaks to my winter list before the end of season.</div>
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Didn't take any pics on the way down, this is almost back at the trailhead at the snowmobile bridge you have to cross to get to the winter bushwhack to the actual trailhead. It took me a little over 3 hrs to get down from where it had taken me over 6 hrs to get up.</div>
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<strong>PHOTOS: Note my camera still thinks it 2014 but the time and date are right.</strong><br />
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Crossing the bridge to Zealand Road. Late start because I was planning to start at another trail (Little River rd to Twin Mt trail to the old Fire Wardens trail) but couldn't find a well defined broken out trail there.</div>
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This hike was perfect for the pulk that I built for last winter's Bonds hike. Over 5 miles of pulkable road vs. only 4.4 miles of actual trail and Zealand Road was well packed and fairly level so that I barely knew I was pulling it. Beats carrying a heavy pack. And YES , I do enjoy saying "pulk". </div>
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First dilemma; a fork in the road. It took me a while to decide but since the sign on an open gate on the left said no motor vehicles, I figured it must be closed in the summer so Zealand Road is to the right. Turned out to be correct but didn't really matter since the snowmobile road joins back up with Zealand later. Actually the snowmobile road was a bit shorter, I took it on the way back down. I actually took this picture on the way back (16:10)<br />
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Zealand road was well packed by lots of XC ski traffic. This pic is looking back.</div>
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2d dilemma: Most of the ski and snowmobile traffic is going right, but the sign says its going to Twin Mt. so I correctly chose left. For a while I was concerned that I may have chosen badly until the river showed up on the left of the trail as shown on my map. Note there is a third XC ski trail in the middle marked with blue dot blazes. I ended up crossing that trail while hiking Hale Brook trail .{I actually took this picture on the way back (15:42)}<br />
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Continuing on Zealand Rd, much less sign of traffic. Probably just skiers going to or from Zealand Hut. On the way back I met a father and son skiing to the hut. It was late and I doubt they made it before dark- hope they had head lamps.</div>
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Start of the well defined Hale Brook trail. I left my pulk at the trailhead.</div>
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1-3" fresh powder over most of the trail. This is before I came along and...</div>
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.... This is after looking back.<br />
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Several sections of the trail cross perpendicular to the fall line. Have to be careful here because the downhill side is soft and very deep. <br />
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Mini avalanches had thrown snow clumps onto the trail. Not hard to bust them apart and pack them down with the snowshoes but a pain in the butt.<br />
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This picture is hard to see it but there were also many 1'-2' diameter hunks of snow fallen onto the trail from the trees.</div>
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One huge blow-over crossing the trail - had to climb under - no way around it.</div>
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Some parts of the trail were completely drifted in. I had to probe with my poles to find the packed trail underneath. Too far right or left means thigh deep snow and possible spruce traps<br />
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After I tramped trough a drifted section. Solo hiking doesn't break trail out very well and is pretty exhaustin. When I got near the top I was only taking 10-20 steps at a time before having to stop for 10-15 breaths to catch my breath. Damn Emphysema!</div>
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The reward: A small cleared area (that used to have a fire tower on it) with a mostly covered cairn (see next picture to see what it looked like in the summer) Not even any grey jays around to feed - I did a few cheerios for them though..<br />
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The same Cairn a few summers ago (My grandson Kris on the top)</div>
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Peak selfie. 29/48 WNH4Ks<br />
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A few pictures from standing on top of the cairn:</div>
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Heading back down there were some views that I didn't notice on the way up. </div>
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Hill side trail on the way back down the low side seemed even softer on the way down and collapsed on me a few times</div>
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Indian Chief.</div>
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<b>Trip Report:</b> I had planned to do this hike on Saturday (1/24) but the last minute snow forecast made me push it up a day. The hike turned out to be ~12 miles with 4200 ft total elevation gain. Longest hike by far since I did the bonds last March. And just like the last two, the steeper sections really kicked my butt. I've got to get back into better shape if I'm to do some of the longer hikes I want to do this winter. This was a relatively warm hike with temps in the high 20s and low 30's, I believe, and clear skies - perfect winter hiking conditions.<br />
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The most eventful part of the hike was tackling a section of icy ledges on Blueberry Ledge Trail. I had read a trail report that recommended crampons and Ice axes for this section.<br />
I don't carry Ice axes. I did have crampons hanging off my pack (and snowshoes) but did the entire hike with micro-spikes. The trail was hard frozen so that there was no chance of post holing on the broken out trail. I had been doing pretty good coming up some of the easier ledges with my micro-spikes and in lieu of ice axes, collapsing my telescoping poles and grabbing them just above the baskets to use the points like ice picks to help pull me up. So, rather than taking the time to swap to full crampons I continued up the steeper ledge this way. It worked okay half way up where I had some small trees on the side that I could use for added footholds, but then it got steeper with only the ice and several inches of frozen snow to work with. If I had the crampons on I think I could have easily worked my way latterly across the face but I didn't have the confidence to try it with micro-spikes since it would be a long slide down if I lost hold. So, I continued straight up jabbing and walking the points of my poles several inches at a time and digging my spikes into the ice as best as I could. The problem with the spikes is that they don't have the forward point barbs that crampons do that are needed for kicking in a good foot hold. I almost got to the top where the slope starts leveling off but ran out of strength and wind and finally lost my grip and slid 15 feet back down being stopped by a tree that I caught with my foot. Its amazing how fast you can get up to in 15 feet on solid near vertical ice. Aiming for the tree with my foot I really thought there was a good chance of breaking my leg if I hit it wrong, but it stopped me okay with no injury. I rested in that position a good 10 minutes trying to get my breath back and deciding if I should work my way all the way down and changed to crampons. Doing that might be a bit more dangerous because beyond the single small tree I was resting on there wasn't much else to stop me. Finally I decided to give it another try but to go much slower pulling myself up with one pole at a time resting a minute between jabs then reposition my feet trying to dig into the ice the best I could. It was slow work but eventually I got to the crest of the ledge and was able to pull myself up hand over hand digging into the snow and ice with the pole tips. This obstacle wasn't really anything that was that technically difficult but the fact that I am out of shape and and alone on the mountain made it enough of a challenge that I felt pretty good about overcoming it<br />
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Start is from a large hikers lot on Ferncroft Road .5 miles off NH113A. Started at ~ 7am. (Ifinally fixed the date stamp on my camera). I wanted to start earlier but lost almost an hour driving through iced dirt roads that turned out to be winter dead ends. I really should get a better gps for my truck. this is like the third time this has happened. <br />
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started out on Blueberry Ledge Cut-off. not much snow here, but the trail is well broken out by boot traffic</div>
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birch field</div>
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frozen slush on trail from warmer weather at the beginning of the week</div>
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large opening where the Cut-Off meets lueberry Ledge Trail</div>
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though you are in the trees most of the time there are many opening, ledges and cliffs that offer great views going up to Whiteface.</div>
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first site of Whiteface (actually its a false peak just before Whiteface.</div>
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Some icy sections to maneuver. This small one wasn't bad, but the actual ledges up further were difficult - but I didn't think to take any pictures of them.</div>
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some good southern views toward the lakes regions from the ledges </div>
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just to the left of the trail here is a steep drop off. a bad slip here would be it.</div>
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looking toward Passaconaway with "the bowl" in between the two mountains</div>
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large ice covererd boulder at the viewing area on the south summit </div>
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views to the southeast from the South Summit</div>
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Just before the actual summit Kate Sleeper trail breaks off to the sleeper mountains. I was considering bagging East Sleeper today (one of my NEHH peaks) if the trail was broken out, but as you can see it wasn't. The snow was hard and I had snowshoes but didn't have a good gps track. Also another hiker had said that it was in bad shape with many blow-downs across it. So I passed and will save her for a summer hike.<br />
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the actual Whiteface summit is view-less, just a board screwed to a tree to mark the spot.</div>
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before decending along the ridge to the deep cole between Whiteface and Passaconaway are a few good views of Passaconaway and the Bowl below her.</div>
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Passaconaway viewed from an opening cleared by Hurricane Sandy in 2013. I was here several weeks after Sandy and described it as the Argonne forest after being pelted by German artillery (Band of Brothers). The trail has been completely cleared now.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">I'm assuming the ski trails are Watervile Valley (Tecumseh) , and the peaks in the foreground are the Tripyramids</span>.</div>
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Not exactly sure what peaks these are. Can't recall what direction I was aiming. </div>
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Clearing just off Rollins trail just before the short spur to the Passaconaway "peak"</div>
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This picture could have been taken anywhere, but I am at my best guess of the peak of Passaconaway. Its not very distict or marked with anything.</div>
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I had dropped my pack and had a bite to eat, and hydrated at the junction of Rollins and Dicey's Mill trail and went up the Rollins trail with just my belly pack to Mt Passaconaway .7 mile 575' elevation gain. Here I have returned to my pack to start the easy but long (3 hr.) hike back to Ferncroft Road along Dicey's mill trail. The trail is all downhill and gentle or level so you can make some good time. The problem was that it had dozens of frozen post holes (3' deep boot tracks made when the snow was softer) that you could break an ankle in. Down low there was hardly any snow and the trail was a combination of frozen boot tracks and rocks above the ice. - hard on the ankles.<br />
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The only significant water crossing has a 2' diameter birch log that you can balance across. But - there are also plenty of rock hopping routes.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Mooselauke via Glencliff and Moosilauke Carriage Road trails<o:p></o:p> Wednesday Jan 14 2014</b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Trails:</b> Glencliff and Moosilauke Carriage Road trails, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7.8 miles.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Elevation 4800’,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elevation gain 3,384, Book time 5.5 hrs, My time 8:15 (0700 – 1530)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I haven’t hiked since a <a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2015/01/balpate-mt-failed-attempt.html">failed attempt of Baldpate Mt Maine in November</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is my first official winter peak this season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being out of shape I wanted a single peak hike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mooselauke was actually my second all-season hike in <a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html">November of 2011</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The trails I used then would have required extra miles of road hike due to the road to Ravine Lodge being closed in the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather was colder than this fair-weather-hiker prefers. It was at least 5 below at the trailhead but got up to a comfortable 20 degrees by mid-morning - but very windy and cold on the last ½ mile open alpine area. It took me five hours to get to the peak, mainly due to my lack of being in shape on the steeper sections (which weren’t really that steep compared to most of my other hikes).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw no one going up, but just after summiting, two hikers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who had started 2 hours earlier than me had caught. Coming down I crossed 3 sets of two hikers coming up. Pretty crowded for a cold winter midweek day. Mooselauke is actually a very popular peak and is the favorite of the New Hampshire 4,000 ft peaks for many hikers. Great views at the top with no real scrabbles; but she is infamous for being very windy at the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My trail condition report from Views From The Top (VFTT):</span></div>
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<b>Parking:</b> Trailhead lot was plowed & was being sanded just after I arrived at 7am. Room for maybe a dozen cars, but empty when I arrived<br />
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<b>Trail Conditions:</b> Glencliff: Well traveled, no deep snow, mostly boot traffic. All crossings bridged or easy step–overs. A few iced sections but soft enough to traverse with light traction. No trees across trails all the way to the top. Only a few inches of snow on the side of trail at the bottom and only about a foot near the top.<br />
Mooselauke Carriage Road from Glencliff: Well packed snowboard/snow shoe track up to the tree line. It looks like the snowboard tracks continue down the Carriage Rd trail. Above the tree line hard wind packed snow and solid,but horizontal ice. Most of the path through the cairns was solid ice between the two rows of stones.<br />
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<b>Special Equipment Required:</b> Light traction would work all the way to Carriage Rd but crampons would not be over-kill for the steeper sections. I’d recommend snowshoes on carriage road if only so as to not disrupt the snow board track, but light traction would work. Ice above tree line would require some kind of traction. <br />
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<b>Comments:</b> Very cold and windy above the tree line. I couldn’t figure out what the tracks on the Carriage Road were at first. Too smooth and a bit narrow for snowshoes. Too wide for skis. Then coming down I saw a snow boarder hiking up toward the summit then turning around 100 yards short of the summit and snowboarding down. The track I saw turned out to be two parallel tracks from separate snowboard runs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I was told later that the Mooselauke Carriage Road trail is a popular trail for skiers and snowboarders to hike up and ski down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>five mile hike up with over 3000’ of elevation gain for one run. Impressive!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I also found out later that the Carriage Road route may have been a better trail for me. Slightly longer than Glencliff but less steep. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Though uncomfortably short of breath on the steeper sections, I did manage the cold weather pretty good on this hike, particularly for my hands which usually give me a problem when I have to take gloves off for changing between micro-spikes and snowshoes. I’m now using various combination of two sets of glove liners, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gloves and mitts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thermometer I left in the back of the truck confirmed the -5 degrees reported for the trailhead</div>
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Note my camera time stamp is about an hour off. I started at 0700 not 0800</div>
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Not much snow down low -less than 6". Trail well broken out with boot traffic. I used micro-spikes</div>
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all the way up Glencliff trail to Carriage Rd.</div>
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Snow near the top of Glencliff trail was a little deeper, about 1 ft. Not very deep for this time of year. The last section of Glencliff has some fairley steep sections but still is not a scramble.<br />
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Reached the junction with Mooselauke Carriage Road. There was once a hotel on top of Mooselauke and this was the access road. I changed to snow shoes here and left them on for half the way down.<br />
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Glencliff and the section of Carriage Rd up to the peak are part of the AT (Appalachian Trail). This is only about .9 miles from the peak. The rest of the track to the top is a very easy grade. The first half is drifted wind packed snow path cut through the drifts by snowboarders. ...<br />
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Mt Mooselauke peak at the site of the old hotel. Following is a few pictures I took from the top. Though very cold and windy at the top, the sky was fairly clear with great views.</div>
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I was just about to take a selfie for a peak picture when two other hikers came up behind me. I had one of them take this picture. They had started at 9am - two hours after me. </div>
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Franconia Ridge and the Presidents .</div>
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Back on the Glencliff trail. On the way up I hadn't realized there were some good views behind me.<br />
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The beginning of Glencliff trail is actually a road passing between some fields.</div>
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Back at the trailhead (~1530 not 16:12) trailhead is well marked, off of Highland rd off NH25 </div>
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Temperature had warmed up to 25 at the trailhead by the time I finished.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> The East peak of Baldpate was to be my last Maine peak on my NEHH list. West peak is not on any of my lists and is 1 mile short of my objective. I only made it to west peak and had to turn back shortly after reaching that peak and descending down its east face because:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. I had misinterpreted the mileage ( I was basing my hike on the distance to West Peak).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. I had gotten a very late start because I had messed up setting my alarm.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. It would have been after dark by the time I reached the East peak. Not normally a problem but with the trail condition and weather forecast it was a definite consideration.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4. The snow depth of the unbroken trail going down the east side of West Peak had gotten up to 3 feet and seemed to be getting deeper. Also the snow was too light and powdery for my low flotation snowshoes to help any. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5. I did not have much energy left after pushing through 2 ft of snow on the last section up to West Peak.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6. The weather forecast had possibility freezing rain after 6 pm.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I stood there in thigh deep snow for at least 10 minutes staring at my objective less than a half mile away, but over 300 feet down and another 400 feet up (meaning another 700 ft of elevation gain and loss). I considered all the above factors and reluctantly turned around. Half way back up to West peak I actually turned around again and weighed all these factors one more time </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I probably did the smartest thing by turning back - uncommon for me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong> </strong>Parking across the street from the trailhead. This is were the AT (Appalachian Trail) crosses Rt26</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> The Eyebrow trail up to Old Speck Mt. also starts here. I did Old Speck with my brother <a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2013_07_25_archive.html">in July of 2013</a>. If I knew I was going to attempt the NEHH then I would have stayed a second day and picked her up. The actual starting time is about 11:30 my camera time stamp was off. Very late for me but I wasn't too concerned because I had also misjudged the trail length and trail condition. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong> </strong>Initial part of trail was fairly well broken out by boot traffic but it turned out to only be up to a hut that is half way up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b> This is near the west peak looking back down the trail. Here the snow was fairly wind packed but I had to trudge through areas up to 2 feet of soft powder to get here.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b> This is on the way down at same spot I had taken the previous picture on the way up where all tracks had turned around. Note the white blaze on the tree. The entire AT is marked with white blazes.</b></span></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Hiked to the peaks of Stratton Mt and Mt. Equinox in Vermont on Sunday
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I had hiked two other VT NEHH peaks last Saturday (Bread Loaf and
Wilson) but never wrote up a trip report. The big difference between last weeks
hike and this weeks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hike was that
Bread Loaf & Wilson are along the same trail so I only had a shallow cole
between them to hike both ways. This last hike was actually two separate hikes
starting from two separate trail-heads separated by a 45 minute drive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I arrived at the Trail-head of
the AT/LT (a section where the Appalachian Trail and the Long Trail overlap) on
Arlington-Stratton Rd (also known as Kelly Stand Rd) at about 6 am – I had left
RI at ~ 0230 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My plan for the day was
to bag Stratton and if I got back down early enough to drive to either Equinox
or Dorset to try and try to bag two peaks to minimize my gpp (gallons per peak)
– or $pp. The road was a combination of bare new pavement and a thin layer of
packed slippery snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started off by
headlamp ~ 30 minutes before the sunrise. Stratton had a light dusting at the
bottom with less than 2” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the top.
Lower water crossings were still wet but easy rock hops. The lower trail was
light dusting over crunchy combinations of frozen mud and frozen snow. Upper
trail started getting some hard ice that was slippery with light coat of dry
snow but manageable without traction since they were mostly horizontal frozen
puddles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reached the peak at about 9
am. It was cold and very windy - less than 20 degrees and greater than 30 knots
I would guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started going up the
tower but only went half way because of the high winds and the iced steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t stay at the peak long because of the
cold and my hopes of getting a second peak in before dusk. I had planned to put
my spikes on at the top but forgot and was shortly reminded by a hard fall
backwards (onto my pack).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a fast
(for me) hike down and I reached the bottom at about 1030.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My cars gps said that it was only 9 miles to
the trailhead for Equinox. Unfortunately that was via a closed road. After my
old gps sent me through some alternate back roads and another detour with a
bridge that had probably been out for several year, and a quick stop for a
sandwich, I arrived at the Equinox preserve at about noon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Equinox summit trail is only 3 miles each way vs.
3.8 for Stratton but has a lot more vertical elevation than the Stratton peak (2700’
vs. 1700’) that I had just done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
starts off as a fairly easy grade wide trail (possibly an old carriage road)
with a lot of local traffic of people walking their dogs. I saw three very
hyper dogs (one Lab and two English setters I think) with gps collars with
antennas attached bounding in and out of the woods. When their owners caught up
with me they said on average (per their gps’s) the dogs hike about 5 times the
distance they do on each hike. The first hour of this trail, though not that
steep was very hard for me. I had to stop every 5 minutes for 10 seconds and
lean on poles to catch my breath. I think the main problem was that I had
forgotten to take my meds this morning before leaving RI - most importantly my
Spiriva for my emphysema.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
seriously fighting with myself against the temptation of turning back but
finally bargained with myself that if<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>wasn’t reasonably close by 3pm that I’d head down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I continued to slow my pace to the point that
I didn’t have to keep stopping to get my breath but I was advancing at a
ridiculous slow pace for such an easy trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>About half way up in altitude, but probably 2/3rds by distance, the
trail turns into a regular mountain trail – still not a scramble but steeper
and narrower and more typical England Mountain trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a wooden bench where it transitions
with views down the valley. I stopped for a five minute break and continued up
the narrower trail. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow I had caught
my second wind or something at that point and the rest of the hike though
steeper was not a problem. Except for dog walkers on the much lower sections I
had not seen any other hikers until I was within 500 ft elevation of the top.
This seemed a bit strange since there where dozens of fresh tracks in the light
snow going up and down. When I finally met two hikers coming down they warned
me that it was very icy the rest of the way and very windy and cold at the
top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had noticed the ice getting worse
at this point and stopped and put on my micro spikes. Shortly later I ran into
two more hikers on their way down that confirmed that it was very windy on top.
I held off on putting on more layers for the wind because I was still sheltered
in the trees, though I could hear the high winds but was actually pretty warm
with just several thin layers on. When I was only about 500 ft from the top, I
finally took off my pack and put on a fleece insulation layer with a nylon
shell over it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dropped pack and
continue up to the top. The peak has an antennae tower on it with a closed
welcome center nearby. There is actually a toll road that can be driven be up
to the center in the summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took a
few pictures and headed down. There is an option of doing a short loop to
Lookout Rock before heading down but I was already running late enough that I
would be in the dark before reaching the bottom. My plan was to try and make it
back down to where the trail widens before it got too dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the way down I was lucky enough to have
three deer bound across the trail only about 20 feet from me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After three years of hiking in New Hampshire,
Maine, and Vermont, this is the very first time I’ve seen anything bigger than
a beaver actually while on the trail. I’ve seen Moose a few times but it’s
always been at or near the trailhead or while driving. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was about dusk when I reached the carriage
trail and I continued on for quite a while without needing a head lamp. But
when I started getting closer to the bottom and heard a few gun shots I
recalled that it was still deer season and put on my headlamp, not so much to
see by, but to let hunters know that I wasn’t a deer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also started to drizzle freezing rain
about half an hour from the bottom but it was very light and not a problem. The
latest forecast I read the night before had called for freezing rain but it wasn’t
supposed to come until the next morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I reached my truck feeling pretty good - much better than I did when I
first started this second hike. Fifteen minutes after leaving the trailhead it
started really raining hard – so I lucked out on that too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This brings me up to 93 of the NE- Hundred
Highest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three left in VT, one in
Maine, and three in New Hampshire. My plan was to get as many done as possible
before the start of winter then focus on my NH winter list (I have 25/48) with
an initial hope of finishing the winter hikes this winter. With my performance
on this hike, and the one last week (Bread Loaf and Wilson), I now realize that
that would probably not be possible. So I think I’ll just focus on finishing my NEHH
list first even if it goes into the winter and then work on my winter NE48 over
at least two more seasons.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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interesting) but I’m in the process of transitioning from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a pc with a virus to a new lap top so it may
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Mouse trapeze at the hut. Most huts in VT and on the AT have these to hang your pack. supposedley the mice cant get past the can to get at your pack.<br />
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Maine SIX-PACK PLUS Hikes Oct 2014: <br />
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Recently I spent four days in Maine attempting to finish as many of my remaining 8 New England Hundred Highest (NEHH) peaks as weather and my legs would permit. I drove up from Rhode Island Tuesday night Sept. 30th and returned Saturday Oct. 4th after completing 7 of the 8. I probably still had the time and legs to finish off my last peak, Baldpate, but I was pretty drenched after completing Elephant on Saturday morning in the morning drizzle and bushwhacking through dense wet spruce trees. So, I called it quits and left Baldpate for another trip. This trip leaves me with 11 peaks from the NEHH list (1 in Maine, 3 in NH, and 7 in VT.) None of these hikes were particularly long or physically challenging (even for me), mostly because of the dirt roads maintained by the logging industry that gets you up to a high starting elevation and the network of new and older logging roads and skid trails and ATV trails on the mountains. The most difficult part is sometimes finding the “trailheads”. None of them have maintained trails, per-se, and a few involve fairly tough, but short, bushwhacks. I still maintain that Scar Ridge (NH) and Menden (VT) are tougher bushwhacks then any of the Maine NEHH Peaks – at least the way I did them. I have yet to do Voss Spur (NH) which some say is the toughest. The Maine peak I left behind, Baldpate, does actually have a trail and is in fact along the Appalachian Trail. Note that although the dirt roads get you closer to the peaks, some are pretty tough on your vehicle. I had bolts on several exhaust joints and on my cab loosen up. High clearance and 4-wheel drive is highly recommended. The first six of these peaks are all in the same general area and are often called the Six-Pack. Elephant is much further south than the rest (as is Baldpate) but is often done with the six-pack. My report(s) of these hikes is in no-way intended as a guide line for doing these hikes (possibly a guide as to how not to do them). I mostly relied on reports from two previous similar trips: <br />
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<a href="http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?46028-Maine-NEHH-Six-Pack-plus-Elephant-8-11-12-8-14-12">Tim’s 2012 trip on View From The Top (VFTT) which includes a map of all seven peaks.</a> and<br />
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<a href="http://forum.hike-nh.com/viewtopic.php?t=7865&highlight=elephant"> Mat’s more recent July 2014 trip report from Hike-NH.Com</a> <br />
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My trip reports and pictures for each day can be found at the links below:<br />
To date, I have dumped all my pictures to these pages and added captions to the first few days but will still add captions to the last two and provide more trip details later.<br />
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<li><a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html" rel="nofollow">Wednesday 10/1/14: Failed attempt of Boundary Peak and #1 Mt Snow (Chain of Ponds).</a></li>
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<li><a archive.html="" href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2014_10_02_archive.html" rel="nofollow" slowhiker.blogspot.com="">Thursday 10/2/14: #2 & #3 North Kennebago Divide & White Cap , and #4 Mt. Snow (Cupsuptic/Little Kennebago). </a></li>
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<li><a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2014_10_03_archive.html" rel="nofollow">Friday 10/3/14: #5. Boundary Peak (from the US Canadian side) and #6. East Kennebago. </a></li>
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<li><a href="http://1slowhiker.blogspot.com/2014_10_04_archive.html" rel="nofollow">Saturday 10/4/14: #7 Elephant Mountain. </a></li>
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Most of the above reports are just dumps of the pictures I took for now. The highlights of the trip might be the boundary swath pictures from Boundary Peak and the moving ground video and moose skeleton pictures in the Elephant Mt. report.<br />
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