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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks Cannon Mountain, NH
Trails
Trails: Kinsman Ridge Trail, herd path
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: Plenty of plowed parking at tramway lot. 
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment: Snowshoes 
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes: No issues - no real crossings on this route. No evidence of open drainages or thaw damage. 
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes: No blowdown issues. Freezing rain led to some drooping saplings and drooping boughs in the trail corridor. Not too bad, all things considered. Blazes very good until viewpoint, then snow-obscured. Sign at viewpoint spur seemed to be missing. 
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes:  
Bugs
Bugs:  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: Broke trail - not bad with just a few inches of light snow. There seemed to be a few inches of powder over a crust, which was over a moderately firm base on the trail, and over a weak base elsewhere. Glades were sometimes awkward in steeper spots, as the powder nullified the snowshoe crampons on the crust. Some drooping ice-covered saplings and boughs, but in general the corridor was good -- a tribute to the maintainer(s). The trail proper was obscure on the last few hundred feet of the climb, so I free-formed it, following a ski track to the ski trail near the tramway station and took a herd path from there to the summit.  
Name
Name: PeterC 
E-Mail
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Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2011-03-08 
Link
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