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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks Mt. Carrigain, NH
Trails
Trails: Carrigain Notch Trail, Desolation Trail, Signal Ridge Trail
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Friday, June 10, 2011
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: Usual nice lot. 
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Dry Trail, Mud - Minor/Avoidable, Standing/Running Water on Trail 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment:  
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes: No problems. Most easy rock steps; a few easy rock hops. 
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes: Trails in good condition overall. Desolation had a couple stepovers and a few small bendovers. Signal Ridge has the usual fair amount of erosion from running water but by today only a small amount of the trail down low had water running in it. 
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes: The mighty tough little dog loved today's route, with lots of sippin and dippin streams, and a long easy approach on a nice footbed. It is dry once up Desolation all the way to the top and down around 2100'on Signal Ridge. 
Bugs
Bugs: Plenty of skeeters down low; stop and they swarmed us. Once we were over the notch hardly a one. On Carrigain peak black flies would get you when off the platform. If moving Signal Ridge mid to upper was okay.  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: It is so much nicer to hike Carrigain by way of Carrigian Notch and Desolation; I should have returned the same way. What a nice hike it is. Lots of white and pink lady's slippers nearing the notch and thereafter until heading up on Carrigain.


Met the new Sabbaday Brook trail maintainer at the Notch split off (spraying himself with Deet) and then again on top; he had a bag of trash he picked up just on the peak. Saw 2 others later on our hike down. Otherwise, Pepper had a free run of the trails and loved it.


Great day to be away from the computers at work and the ongoing power outage at home.  
Name
Name: Pepper and Me 
E-Mail
E-Mail: windriversjohn at gmail.com 
Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2011-06-10 
Link
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