| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Mt. Lafayette, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Old Bridle Path, Greenleaf Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, January 23, 2021 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Plenty of parking at 8AM. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes, Light Traction |
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 | Comments: |
Light traction up to Greenleaf Hut when we switched to snowshoes and kept them on the rest of the day. Don't be deceived by what it looks like on the drive up or the parking lot; the mountains up high now have winter snowpack and it is building with each minor snowfall!
Old Bridle Path was fairly well packed. Maybe a foot of snow at the trailhead, but two feet after Agony Ridge.
Deeper snow after Greenleaf Hut; generally three feet with a few stretches of four feet deep snow drifts. Cairns were difficult to find with the trail actively drifting in more. The four of us were breaking trail...I'm sure we went off trail a few times.
Chilly where exposed to the wind. We had a reading of zero degrees on the summit with winds picking up to 35mph making the wind chill -25. We were the only ones on the summit and we did not see anyone attempting on our descent. On the return, the snow was really flying around making our return...all of our snowshoe tracks on the way up were gone because of the wind...difficult by following the cairns covered with snow and ice...the flat white lighting, high winds and snow blowing around made route finding a challenge...thankfully we've been up here many times before.
We were going to hike the ridge but we did not under these conditions! |
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 | Name: |
RollingRock |
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| Date Submitted: |
2021-01-23 |
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 | Link: |
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/PemiValleyHikers/ |
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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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