| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
Mt. Avalon, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Avalon Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, February 5, 2022 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Parked at Crawford Notch picnic area, about 12 cars at 9am. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
All small hops or bridged. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
One pretty big and awkward crawl under on the spur path up to Avalon summit. |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
No dogs seen. |
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 | Bugs: |
No bugs seen. |
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 | Lost and Found: |
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 | Comments: |
Snowshoes all day. My thermometer tracked 3F as the low. <20mph winds but most of the trail is protected from the wind. Track was decently broken out until the A-Z fork. From there there was only one set of snowshoe tracks up to Avalon, looked more broken between Field and Avalon, but I called it a day. Steep path from A-Z to summit spur was a exhausting with all the back sliding. The summit spur was even more exhausting with the champagne powder. On the return, bare booters had reversed the work I'd done on the way up making it a snowshoe ski down the mountain. Butt sledding wasn't an option with the amount of fresh powder. Passed the guilty party on the lower section. 8 barebooters representing Dartmouth outing club(how the mighty have fallen!). Talked for a minute, they had bailed from exhaustion going up Avalon. The trail was really nice and flat after I passed them and i stopped rolling my ankles. |
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 | Name: |
robaro |
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 | E-Mail: |
rcorsaro@gmail.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2022-02-07 |
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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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