| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
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Kearsarge North, NH |
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 | Trails: |
Weeks Brook Trail |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
AWD and snow tires easily got us to the summer trailhead but would not attempt it after the current snowstorm. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
All easy but snowshoes got a little wet |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Last visited in 2014. Trsil was in better shape than expected. |
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 | Lost and Found: |
Lost three Black Diamond pole baskets. Not to worry: I have a huge collection of replacements. And found one of them on the way out! |
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 | Comments: |
This was a lovely hike!! I wore snowshoes basically from the very start and was happy with that choice.
Friend wore them just for the upper half of the trail.
On the way up, we were busy chatting and looking down and missed the trail section that parallels FS Road 317A.
Shingle Pond is gorgeous, and from there to the summit the trail got better and better: so many tall hemlocks, fun scrambly ledges, and the trail breaking was easy. We saw tracks of bear, moose, deer and heard a barred owl! And the extensive hemlocks went on and on. Wow!
Took a lunch break in the summit structure (register is full - needs a new one), enjoyed a nip of Screwbal, and headed back down the same way but got the missed trail section this time. Reached the car before snow began falling in earnest. |
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 | Name: |
Snowflea |
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| Date Submitted: |
2025-12-24 |
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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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