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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks Bondcliff, Mt. Bond, West Bond, NH
Trails
Trails: Lincoln Woods Trail, Bondcliff Trail, West Bond Spur
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Sunday, March 16, 2014
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes:  
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Ice - Breakable Crust, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts, Snow/Ice - Monorail (Stable), Snow/Ice - Monorail (Unstable) 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment: Snowshoes, Light Traction 
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes: Mostly well bridged, a few of the lower, smaller crossings were wet but easily hopped. 
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes: Couple low limbo moves, very well maintained. 
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes: Not in that wind!!! 
Bugs
Bugs:  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: Much appreciated running into another like-minded soul on a cold, windy Sunday, makes those monotonous, flat miles pass by. Hard-packed monorail all the way to approx the last crossing, then is was drifts up to a foot or so to the summit of Bondcliff. Scoured crust-ice-rock-drifts until the scrub on Bond. Route finding difficulties, full-depth spruce traps, and an all-you-can-eat snow drifts buffet, but eventually found the path. Winds had filled in all previous tracks, but the trough re-emerged just prior to West Bond spur, though only continued in 50 yards or so. Heavy snow and drifts to summit of West Bond.

Hiked out with the rising moon, 14 hours round trip. Amazing day.  
Name
Name: RichD 
E-Mail
E-Mail: richdurkee_at_yahoo_dot_com 
Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2014-03-17 
Link
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