Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Mt. Jackson, NH |
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| Trails: |
Webster-Jackson Trail |
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| Date of Hike: |
Monday, April 1, 2019 |
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| Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Pull off plowed, but look out for large potholes. |
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| Surface Conditions: |
Ice - Blue, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular, Snow - Drifts, Snow/Ice - Monorail (Stable), Snow/Ice - Postholes |
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| Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes, Light Traction |
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| Water Crossing Notes: |
Still solidly snowbridged for now. |
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| Trail Maintenance Notes: |
A few spruce trees leaning across the trail up high, but more a function of the snowpack at this point. |
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| Comments: |
Still full, deep snowpack, even after the warm rain yesterday. A dusting of snow this morning drifted in the trail in places up high.
I briefly considered going with spikes, and they probably would have been adequate this afternoon/evening with the colder, windy weather, but in the end I was happier with snowshoes. Fortunately the last users of the trail during the warmup wore snowshoes, so it was a relatively smooth footbed (albeit with some residual bareboot postholes sprinkled in). Up high, the dusting had filled in the trough in places. Fortunately this trail is generally obvious, but this could cause some trail finding elsewhere (and if you're trailfinding with this much snowpack, you need snowshoes, as the unpacked snow will not support boots).
The very top of the trail had a short stretch of monorail and a little blue ice, but the bulk of the summit cone on this side looked bare. The snowpack was as such that I could snowshoe along the base of the ledges in the spruce to the eastern side and go right up on snow. The summit woods are so drifted in right now that the trees are knee high, providing great 360 degree views.
Overall, I would estimate the snowpack ranges from 3 to 6 feet, the former down low and the latter in places up high. |
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| Name: |
rocket21 |
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| E-Mail: |
rocket21@franklinwebpublishing.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2019-04-01 |
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| Link: |
https://www.franklinsites.com/hikephotos |
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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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