| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
Bald Mountain (Antrim), NH |
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 | Trails: |
Tamposi Trail, bushwhack |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Thursday, December 23, 2021 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Willard Pond Rd was very well plowed. A little bit of ice here and there but no snow. The road is narrow and has some hills around I was beeping my horn at times to alert oncoming cars. Seemed like a busy road (I ran into several cars on it) for a dirt road! The parking lot is large and icy and rutted. May have a little trouble getting started out of the lot but any car should be able to handle it. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Ice - Black, Snow - Trace/Minimal Depth, Ice - Blue, Wet/Slippery Rock, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Light Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
There’s a brook crossing before reaching the loop jct that the guidebook doesn’t mention. Easily rock hopped. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Tamposi Trail is blazed in yellow. It coincides with Bald Mtn Trail for a bit which is blazed in red. If I recall correctly, where if coincided with Bald Mtn Trail, it follows the blazing for Bald Mtn Trail (red) only. Trails were easy to follow and well blazed. At Tamposi’s Trail jct with Sour Trail (blazed in blue) there’s an old looking sign for Tamposi Trail but none for Spur Trail. It was immediately after this where there’s some flagging and a bit of a weird turn or possible reroute (hard to tell with snow). A ways after this was a decent sized blowdown, the only one I saw on the trail. Hopefully it will get removed soon as it was a bit of a pain. |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
A fine trail for dogs. |
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 | Bugs: |
None |
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 | Lost and Found: |
None |
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 | Comments: |
Day 53, Peak 49. 2nd hike of the day after doing Crotched Mtn. Cold (low 20s) and very windy day bud with mostly sunny blue skies.
I waited to put spikes on until some icy ledges just before the outlook at 0.8mi but might as well put them on at the car. It’s a hard, icy snow. Nice views from the ledges. The high point seems to basically be on trail. Maybe not where the large cairn is but just beyond it on trail (there was a smaller cairn JUST off trail beyond it that I think is the true high point). That said, where the trail turns left, I continued straight along a rock wall to explore and make sure I hit the high point. Lots of red paint around here so the rock wall may denote a private property boundary. If you follow the rock wall a ways, you’ll find another cairn on top of a little ledge but I doubt this was higher than the point earlier. I followed my tracks back and continued following the loop counterclockwise as described in the guidebook down.
312 more days and 316 more peaks to go… |
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 | Name: |
Liam Cooney |
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 | E-Mail: |
liamcooney96@gmail.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2021-12-24 |
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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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