| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Healey Hill, Jackson Hill, NH |
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 | Trails: |
King Street, bushwhack, Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway, snowmobile trails, Jefts Road |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Saturday, February 22, 2025 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
There's a nicely plowed turnout at the top of King Street where is turns off from Faxon Hill Road; someone even came by while I was out and dumped sand all over it. I think people might use it as a snowmobile pickup spot. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
Everything is frozen. |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Nothing of note. |
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 | Comments: |
The trail portions of the Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway are super well blazed in white, there's no getting lost on that trail.
I walked south on King Street until I hit the height of land just south of the county line. There were lots of posted signs until the county line, then they stop by the time you hit the HOL. At the HOL there is an old logging clearing that gives good access to some slightly discernible old logging tracts. King Street is part of a snowmobile network and was very well tracked out and quite busy with sleds out today. Once I left the pacted track however, the woods were very deep. Even the quick scoot up Healey was very tedious.
After Healey once back on King Street I went back north until I hit the M-S Greenway, then struct out into the woods due west towards Jackson Hill. I broke trail and it didn't seem like anyone else had done so this winter, there was no sign of any consolidation under my snowshoes. I was surprised to see that snowmobiles had broken out the old 4x4 road that runs north-south through the notch just east of Jackson Hill. I crossed that and kept breaking trail up to the ridge. I was then even more surprised to see that the ridgeline had been snowmobiled too.
I hit Jackson Hill summit and enjoyed the views for a while before going back north along the snowmobile track, continuing past the M-S Greenway turnoff to the east. Where the former M-S Greenway veers norht-east off the ridge, I followed an XC ski track down that trail, while the snowmobile tracks dropped off to the west, probably taking the shortest path towards Jefts Road. It seemed like there was much more of a broken out base on this trail than on the current M-S Greenway. At the pond, I met back up with the 4x4 road snowmobile track, which I then followed north up to Jefts Road, which I followed east back to King Street.
All told, the snowmobile trails made for some fast travel, but don't expect the woods trails to necessarily be broken out. This route was 8.3 miles roundtrip for these two hilltops. |
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 | Name: |
Khiggs |
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| Date Submitted: |
2025-02-23 |
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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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