| Hiking Trail Conditions Report |
 | Peaks |
Stratton Mountain, Spruce Peak, Prospect Rock, VT |
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 | Trails: |
Long Trail, VAST Trail 7, VAST Trail 7A, local trail, Old Rootville Road |
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 | Date of Hike: |
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 |
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 | Parking/Access Road Notes: |
Plenty of plowed parking at Kelly Stand Road, for both AT/LT and nearby IP Road snowmobile areas. No parking at North Brookwood access (but dropoff & pickup okay). Large plowed parking at AT/LT crossing of Rt. 11/30; also snowmobile parking, so park wisely. Bottom of Old Rootville Road has plowed space for 3 cars. |
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 | Surface Conditions: |
Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular |
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 | Recommended Equipment: |
Snowshoes, Light Traction |
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 | Water Crossing Notes: |
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 | Trail Maintenance Notes: |
Usual blowdowns for this time of year |
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 | Dog-Related Notes: |
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 | Lost and Found: |
Lost a cotter pin and ring which keeps snowshoe crampon attached. |
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 | Comments: |
Spiked up to summit of Stratton via LT northbound. Trail heavily traveled and firmly packed. Switched to snowshoes on summit. Lots of bent over branches and snow/ice encased trees at higher elevations, a couple of which required hands-and-knees crawl unders.
Coming off summit there was an old, infrequently discernible, meandering snowshoe track, and footing was over a surface of hard frozen ice chunks. Tubbs snowshoe dropped a cotter pin and ring which attaches the snowshoe claw to the plastic bed. MacGyvered a fix with a key ring, alas the fix got me only a couple miles to the IP road/ VAST Trail 7. F.....!!! Fancypants to the rescue. Trail 7 to 7A to a local trail that leads to North Brookwood Road which I remembered from skiing the Catamount Trail.
FP picked me up and drove me around to the LT/AT crossing on 11/30, and I traversed the 5-mile Spruce Peak section (spikes to the shelter spur, easy trail breaking in spare snowshoes from there to Prospect Rock), down Old Rootville Road, which is snowmobiled. |
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 | Name: |
Snowflea |
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| Date Submitted: |
2021-03-07 |
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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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