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Hiking Trail Conditions Report
Peaks
Peaks Mt. Cabot, NH
Trails
Trails: York Pond Trail, Bunnell Notch Trail, Kilkenny Ridge Trail
Date of Hike
Date of Hike: Saturday, March 10, 2012
Parking/Access Road Notes
Parking/Access Road Notes: We parked at the Unknown Pond trailhead parking lot. It has plenty of room and is plowed except for the inch or two of fresh snow. 
Surface Conditions
Surface Conditions: Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow/Ice - Postholes 
Recommended Equipment
Recommended Equipment: Snowshoes, Light Traction 
Water Crossing Notes
Water Crossing Notes: Most of the water crossings were not bridged, but you can easily hop over them. Be careful of the ones that are bridged. One member of our group postholed through one of them with her snowshoe into the water 
Trail Maintenance Notes
Trail Maintenance Notes:  
Dog-Related Notes
Dog-Related Notes: We saw one dog. He seemed to be having fun. Dogs should have no problem with these trails. 
Bugs
Bugs:  
Lost and Found
Lost and Found:  
 
Comments
Comments: The trails to Mt Cabot are well broken out. We wore snowshoe on our way up and most of us wore them on the way down. The trail was very firm with an inch or so of new snow on it. There was some evidence of older postholes, but they looked like from snowshoes.



When we went by the old Mt Cabot trail and there were recent tracks on the trail, but I wouldn't call it broken out. On our ascent to the cabin we meet someone coming down the trail and he was the one that came up the old trail. The Kilkenny Ridge trail to the Bulge and the Horn has not been broken out.



On our way back down to the trailhead we met a group of four, a couple groups of 2 and a single hiker. Only two of these people were wearing snowshoes. The others were either barebooting it, wearing Microspikes or crampons. They all said they had no problems hiking the trail this way with no postholing. On parts of the trail you wouldn't even know people were barebooting and other places it was obvious because they were chewing up the trail. I did see a couple fresh postholes, but not many.
 
Name
Name: btausend 
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Date Submitted
Date Submitted: 2012-03-10 
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