| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
Mt. Madison, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Great Gulf Trail, Osgood Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Plenty of parking at the Great Gulf Trail trailhead. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Ice - Blue, Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Ice - Breakable Crust, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts, Snow - Wet/Sticky, Snow/Ice - Postholes |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes, Light Traction, Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
Not an issue. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Trails are in decent shape -- a couple of small duck-under blowdowns on the upper Osgood before treeline, but the larger crawl-over/under ones from the last couple of years have been removed. |
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 | Comments: |
Packed granular on Great Gulf Trail, with occasional drifts of a few inches in the open glades. On Osgood, drifted new snow -- a few inches down low, 4-6 inches by the tent site, rapidly increasing to a foot to two feet before treeline.
We wore snowshoes almost the entire day, except for traction on a few glaze-ice sections up on the ridge near the summit. |
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 | Name: |
Pancks and Tesco Heaney |
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| Date Submitted: |
2015-03-25 |
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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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