| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
Buffumville Lake, MA |
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 | Trails: |
Lake Shore Trail (South Loop) |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Large lot, well plowed. Only two other cars. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Wet/Sticky |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
One brook crossing was a rock hop, if you can call gingerly stepping across in snowshoes a hop. Other major crossing has a wooden bridge. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Some blowdowns, but easily gone around or over. |
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 | Comments: |
About a 4 mile loop around the southern half of the lake. We mostly stayed on the blue-blazed Lake Shore Trail, but took some detours on the red and white blazed project boundary cleared corridor. The snow started out (at about 10AM) as powdery, but an hour or so later had melted to a sticky consistency, causing balling under the snowshoe crampons. No one had broken the trail after Tuesday's storm, and there were few bareboot tracks even after Sunday's storm. No tracks after about a half mile from the parking lot. First time on snowshoes for Gammy Legs.
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 | Name: |
greatoz |
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 | E-Mail: |
greatoz.tz...gmail |
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| Date Submitted: |
2013-12-19 |
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 | Link: |
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Disclaimer: Reports are not verified - conditions may vary. Use at own risk. Always be prepared when hiking. Observe all signs. Trail conditions reports are not substitutes for weather reports or common sense. |
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