| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Mt. Forest, Jericho Mountain, Sugar Mountain, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Wind Access Roads, snowmobile trails, bushwhacks |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, January 26, 2019 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
we left one car in the cascade neighborhood in berlin at the start of a logging road on an extension of corbin st. well plowed with room for a couple cars. pretty icy today. we then drove around and parked the other vehicle at berlin self storage off rt. 110 directly across from the wind access road. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Ice - Blue, Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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 | Comments: |
leaving rt 110 the road was initially icy, but soon turned into a packed track made by a tracked pick up truck. solid, fast walking up to the closed gate where we turned south on the snowmobile packed trail/road to mount forest. great views from near the summit. a short bushwhack led to the recognized highpoint. snow off trail was pretty consistent all day with a breakable crust over heavy powder. generally sinking in 12+ inches or so with deeper areas. from forest we continued on the snowmobile trail loop, but instead of closing the loop followed an unbroken trail/road towards jericho. we ultimately left the road and made a short bushwhack up to the wind farm road which was heavily wind scoured with bare ground and ice in sections. we hiked towards the eastern most turbine then got on the unbroken access road up to the old gauging site just below the summit. a short bushwhack/rough trail led to the recognized highpoint. from the clearing below the summit we bushwhacked down towards the most southwestern turbine with pretty easy going until right above the road where we hit a man made drop off from the blasting in of the road. a bit tricky getting down in snowshoes on the loose bare rock. we then continued bushwhacking down southwest to pick up an atv/snowmobile trail (heatstroke) west to atv/snomo corridor A1 which runs up over sugar mountain. portions of that trail were scoured bare, but mostly good snowshoeing on snomo packed trail. at the trails height of land we made the relatively short bushwhack to the mountains recognized highpoint. we then continued down east on the snomo corridor making one north turn then leaving the main corridor and following a snomo packed logging road back down to the car we spotted earlier.
the downloadable jericho state park trail map and aerials useful for figuring out the trails/roads on this one. thanks to bill c. for some recent info as well.
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 | Name: |
bryan, zporterColdRiverCampCook |
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 | E-Mail: |
bryancuddihee@yahoo.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2019-01-26 |
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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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