Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Mt. Moriah, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Stony Brook Trail, Carter Moriah Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, November 30, 2019 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Room for a dozen or so cars on the lot just off Rt 16. I was car #5 at 9am. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Ice - Blue, Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts, Snow - Wet/Sticky |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes, Light Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
larger one is not yet frozen/bridged over, but is rock hoppable. That said, I was using spikes at the crossing and don't think snowshoes would have worked very well since the footing is still somewhat tenuous. |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
Met a saint bernard up on the C-M ledges ... in his element! |
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 | Comments: |
TL;DR - plenty of snow up here! Bring your snowshoes!
Out/back to Moriah summit via Stony Brook Tr to Carter-Moriah Tr (AT). The Stony Brook Tr was roughly 1/3 hard & fast bootpacked, then 1/3 bootpacked with some wet/slushy spots due to the unfrozen runoff that crosses the trail (beware of snow balling on spikes & snowshoes), then 1/3 less broken deep powder. I wore spikes from car to the top 1/3rd of SB Tr, then switched to snowshoes for the upper section and the entirety of the C-M section to the Moriah summit. Some tricky sections with unpacked snow took some effort ... there's at least 24" of snow already in the upper elevations, which made snowshoes a near necessity. I did see one barebooter who postholed up the trail, but the rest of the day's hikers were all on snowshoes. Also, just an observation - someone wrote in the snow (with their poles) "motherhood sucks" - a less commonly seen aphorism, so I thought it was worth mentioning. ;) |
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 | Name: |
Eric H |
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 | Date Submitted: |
2019-11-30 |
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 | Link: |
https://www.strava.com/activities/2902550591 |
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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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