Mount Kearsarge North

Trail: Kearsarge North Trail

Conditions: Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts

“First tracks since the storm, trail is loosely broken with my one set of snowshoe tracks there and back again. Might have been some traffic yesterday morning but it was hard to tell, I broke out 8-15” trough and deeper up high…You’re gonna want snowshoes for the next while. Thin cover over the rocks ~3/4 mile in up to the ledges, so watch out for those to trip you up.. believe it or not, this trail really needs more snow to get fun.”

Trail: Kearsarge North Trail

Conditions: Ice - Black, Ice - Blue, Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular

“Microspikes were a must! Lots of ice covered in a dusting of snow on the bottom 2/3 of the trail, deeper snow near the summit.”

Trail: Weeks Brook Trail

Conditions: Snow - Packed Powder/Loose Granular, Snow/Ice - Frozen Granular

“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.”