| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
North Tripyramid, Middle Tripyramid, South Tripyramid, West Sleeper, East Sleeper, Mt. Whiteface, Mt. Passaconaway, NH |
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 | Trails: |
NH 112, Pine Bend Brook Trail, Mt. Tripyramid Trail, Kate Sleeper Trail, Rollins Trail, Dicey's Mill Trail, Walden Trail, Square Ledge Trail, Passaconaway Cutoff, Oliverian Brook Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Friday, April 15, 2022 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Only car at Oliverian Brook Trailhead |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Dry Trail, Wet Trail, Ice - Blue, Ice - Breakable Crust, Standing/Running Water on Trail, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular, Snow/Ice - Monorail (Stable), Mud - Significant, Snow/Ice - Monorail (Unstable), Snow/Ice - Postholes, Snow/Ice - Small Patches |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes, Light Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
All rock hops |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Did a lot of clearing branches off various trails. Lots of medium sized trees that need to get cut up with a saw |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
N/A |
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 | Bugs: |
N/A |
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 | Lost and Found: |
N/A |
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 | Comments: |
Pretty standard spring conditions for North and Middle Tripyramid with the bare trail to spring snow to stable monorail. Over to South peak had some spicy ice flows and it was easy to posthole if you wandered off the route of the trail. Took the spikes off for the section at the top of the south slide and traversing the southeast slide at the start of the sleeper trail. Scaur ridge trail looked like it had some traffic on it and there is a report today for sabbaday brook trail which is more standard fare spring conditions. Kate Sleeper trail was a nightmarish mix of unstable monorail and stable monorail with a dusting of greasy, slidy spring snow that resulted in an annoying amount of postholing. Depending on your tolerance of type 2 fun, I would recommend bringing snowshoes if you can tolerate them as deadweight for the other 15+ miles. My pace for the rest of the day was 2mph+, on Kate Sleeper it was 1 1/3mph due to the inability to move forward. The section from Downes Book trail to Rollins trail where the trail is a brook, the monorail is collapsing into the stream which leads to some joyous rock hopping in spikes. More standard spring conditions from Whiteface to Passaconaway and down Walden trail. Square ledge trail and passaconaway cutoff are rough currently with patches of bare ground and soft semi-stable monorail becoming more bare ground below 2500' and transitioning back to bare dry/wet trail below 2200' where I took off the spikes. |
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 | Name: |
Heat Lightning |
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 | E-Mail: |
ecs@mountainlogworks.com |
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| Date Submitted: |
2022-04-15 |
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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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