| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Towns Mountain, Mt. Misery, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Snowmobile trails, bushwhack |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, August 10, 2019 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Parked at the end of Mount Misery Road where a private driveway goes left and an old woods road proceeds straight but its now blocked by a huge blowdown and several boulders. Room for 1-2 cars at most. Possible parking closer to Carpenter Brook crossing just below. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail, Wet Trail, Wet/Slippery Rock, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Leaves - Significant/Slippery |
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 | Lost and Found: |
Lost a pair of sun glasses, green croaks attached, in the tall snow mobile grass to the right of the main trail just past the left turn. Good luck finding them! If you do, they're yours! |
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 | Comments: |
From our parking spot, we continued up "Mount Misery Road?" to the junction with #5 snowmobile corridor. We turned right onto 5 South. At about .1 mile the skies opened up so we sought shelter in the woods and put on our rain gear! It stopped after a few minutes so we continued on the snowmobile trail heading for Towns Mountain first. shortly after the trail takes a hard left, we started up through the woods towards the peak. Woods were pretty clean but steep in spots and slippery leaves kept our pace down. We concentrated a little too much on climbing up and not on our heading so ended up on the far west bump (oops!). We followed the ridge toward the summit and eventually found the glass jar. Signed in and took a heading straight down to the snowmobile trail, keeping to the woods as the many snowmobile trails or woods roads on the mountain were very overgrown. Back down in an hour and headed north on the snowmobile road to a point which we figured would be shortest to the summit of Mount Misery. Clean woods most of the way, again crisscrossed with overgrown snowmobile trails. At the height of land there was a clearing filled with more tall raspberry and other plants. Located the pill jar nestled in a spruce tree. Signed in and headed straight down to the snowmobile trail. This one was pretty quick! We did cross an old woods road/snowmobile trail that was less overgrown that lead us back to the trail; not sure if this might be a way to reach the summit as well. Got to the car just before another spot shower hit! |
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 | Name: |
Lady B and Italian |
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 | E-Mail: |
italian10_22@yahoo.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2019-08-10 |
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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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