| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Doublehead Mountain - Northeast Peak (Squam), NH |
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 | Trails: |
Sandwich Notch Road, Crawford Ridgepole Trail, bushwhack |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Sunday, March 8, 2020 |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Light Traction, Traction |
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 | Comments: |
Followed hard packed, snomoed Sandwich Notch Road to Crawford Ridgepole Trail head. Put on microspikes and followed snowshoe depression on a hard packed trail. Approx 100' below the ledges we put on full crampons, walked up to the base of the ledges, went up a short ways, and turned back. Bryan's and Zachary's routes up earlier this winter, were now borderline icy, with too few trees to serve as handholds. We dropped 100' and wandered north just below the huge boulders. We eventually found a satisfactory looking chute, with sufficient trees, through the ledges. However while ascending the chute, we realized we couldn't safely come back down this way. Above the chute, we arrived into rather open mixed woods and bw to the trail, hitting it at 1900' and following it to the bw point. Short bw to the recognized high point.
We followed the trail back to wide open hardwoods at 2050'. We decided to descend through the hardwoods. Our route was initially N eventually becoming NE, and hitting Sandwich Notch Rd. at 2 bridges approx 0.2 mile from the C-R trail head. Descending this way proved to be a good decision, although steep we were always able to easily go around small ledges or boulders.
We booted the entire hike with microspikes or crampons. We never postholed on the trail. Postholing on the bw was minimal. |
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 | Name: |
campsite |
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 | E-Mail: |
campsite50 at gmail dot com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2020-03-08 |
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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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