 | Date of Hike: |
Sunday, February 16, 2020 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
A truck made it down to the open area right before the summer parking lot and it looks like others have as well but we and everyone else parked at the start of Knights Pond Rd. In doing so someone blocked the truck that was further in but they couldn’t have known it at the time. You can fit 4 cars in there if you block the road. The roads in were fine but the parking area might be troublesome for 2WD vehicles and low-clearance. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Trace/Minimal Depth, Ice - Blue, Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Light Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
There’s a cool bridge over beaver pond part. Reminded me of Zealand Trail’s bridges a bit. It was in good shape. Nothing else of significance. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
The trail was very well blazed in blue diamonds and in older blue blaze. The Peninsula Loop has white diamonds. The trails aren’t signed but well blazed and The intersection of at least these two trails was obvious. I did not see where the boulder loop shown on the map was. There was an obvious path (packed out) maybe a couple tenths of a mile before (we travelled counter-clockwise) the peninsula loop but it was on the wrong side of it according to the map so that wasn’t it. The path had no blaze; perhaps it was something coming from private property? I believe there were just two duck unders. Nothing to worry about. |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
Saw one well behaved dog unleashed. There was lots of older dog poop on the trail. Please pick up after your dog. |
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 | Bugs: |
Snowfleas were seen at a little view spur along the peninsula loop. First time my parents had seen them! |
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 | Lost and Found: |
None |
https://alton.nh.gov/forms/trails/Knights%20Pond.pdf