| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
Sunday Mountain, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Road walk, Cross Rivendell Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Sunday, March 24, 2019 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
To anyone who doesn’t own the guidebook... there is no parking at the actual trailhead in Indian Pond Road. Designated hiker parking on Dame Hill Road just a few dozen yards after you turn off of 25A. 0.2m road walk from this designated hiker parking. The parking area was unfortunately unplowed. One car had gone up it earlier in the day or yesterday it looked like so I just followed there tracks in. I probably wouldn’t have attempted to do so if they hadn’t. Only car there at 10:15. A DOC car there upon my return at 2:15. The lot was had already melted some. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Trace/Minimal Depth, Snow - Wet/Sticky, Snow - Spring Snow |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
None |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
The trail is profusely blazed in blue. It didn’t bother me but I’m sure that some people wouldn’t like it. There were times when I could see half a dozen plus blazes looking in just one direction!! Then of course, there were other times when the trai wasn’t obvious and you couldn’t find any at first. So it goes!! Still, a very well blazed Trail which made it mostly easy to follow. Signage is also good (spur to top and viewpoint on Norris Road side both well marked and signed) and there were no do difficult blowdowns/walkovers/leaners. |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
I singing they’d do alright given current conditions. |
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 | Bugs: |
Lots of snowfleas in some areas up higher. |
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 | Lost and Found: |
None |
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 | Comments: |
I traversed Sunday Mountain from Dame Hill Road to Norris Road (east to west) and then walked 2.9m with 220ft of elevation gain back to my car. I started off in bareboots and then very quickly switched to snowshoes as I occasionally postholed to just a few inches below my knee. The snow depth is so little (I’d say it can’t be greater then 2ft anywhere in the mountain maybe just 1.5ft and generally much less) that snowshoes really aren’t ideal but it was quicker and cleaner than barebooting. Furthermore, there were bareboot tracks I saw going down that came up from Norris Road that turned back just afte the shoulder with the view spur (so relatively close to the summit) presumably because they started to posthole frequently to what looked like just above the knee height. That said, I’m sure my snowshoes got beat up quite a bit on the rock and ground underneath the often very thin layer of snow.
I saw some other snowshoe tracks as I descended the Norris Road side that seemed to go straight up the mountain but I saw no actual people on the trail. The true summit is just “ahead†of the summit sign. Some nice views of where I’d just been on the road walk back :) With all the warm weather Orford is getting this week and the rain predicted next weekend, it wouldn’t surprise me if the trail was more or less snowless in about a week. Highly doubt you’ll need snowshoes after that. Probably just bareboots or microspikes at most. |
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 | Name: |
Liam Cooney |
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 | E-Mail: |
liamcooney96@gmail.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2019-03-24 |
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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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