| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Piper Mountain, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Piper Mountain Trail, Piper-Whiteface Link |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Friday, August 2, 2019 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Plenty of room around noon. It must have busy in the morning as there were a couple cars on the side that were all the way down to the no parking sign. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
No issues |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Trails well maintained by BRATTS. Cool stone work for drainage and steps. |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
The ledges on summit are beautiful but hot, like asphalt parking lot. Only water I saw was at the bottom of trail. |
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 | Bugs: |
I used bug spray, wearing shorts and short sleeves, and had no issues. Occasional deer fly would check me out for a minute or so, and then move on. No ticks found, and I had plenty of blueberry bushes rubbing my ankles off trail. |
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 | Comments: |
Mostly dry open trail.
Some blueberry bushes have had the really big ones culled on a first pass, but PLENTY of fruit left. Your chances of finding less picked bushes still improves as you move towards South Piper. The bushes around the off-trail herd paths to ledges are still largely untouched by other human bears.
North Piper ledges are like a parking lot, I got overheated picking there, but found recuperative intermittent shade as soon as I started towards South Piper. Able to sit in pine tree shade on South Piper ledges until it cooled down a bit more. Really quite pleasant conditions hiking back down into the sun set.
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 | Name: |
Steve Marion |
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 | E-Mail: |
swamp_fox@comcast.net |
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| Date Submitted: |
2019-08-03 |
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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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