3,238 ft | Smarts Mountain | 0 routes
Feels like 45°F
Recent Precipitation
Rain: 0.37" (24h) · 0.43" (48h)
~2.4°F drop per 1,000ft
Best Hiking Window
Wednesday evening conditions are the most settled in the near-term window, but Thursday is the stronger hiking day in terms of daylight (13.5 hours) — plan an early morning start Thursday before rain arrives, as the 75% precipitation chance increases through the day. Friday offers a slightly lower 40% rain chance but trail conditions will be increasingly saturated by then.
Trail: Road walk, Daniel Doan Trail
Conditions: Snow - Unpacked Powder
“We walked the road up until the house with the signs about the dogs. There was fresh snow today, maybe 4 inches down here and still falling but it was somewhat plowed and snowmobiled. The trail had a faint trench from maybe one person before, so the breaking wasn’t too difficult but very unconsolidated still. The trees up higher were bending over and the drifts erased the tracks, but the trail is blazed well and not too hard to find. We were able to get in both the cabin and tower. One of us went on to the other summit bump, but the trail was very difficult with the deep snow up here. I gave up half way, knowing that it is no higher than the tower bump. There was some confusion here because a sign seemed to be missing and we missed a left turn trying to follow the AT. Anyway, that’s not an issue if you’re just going up to the tower, which is right behind the cabin.”
Trail: Ranger Trail
Conditions: Snow - Unpacked Powder, Snow - Drifts
“Just the two of us - someone had been on the trail earlier in the week but those tracks had been mostly filled in with new snow. Broke trail - about 6 inches - from the parking lot to the junction. When we arrived at the junction - no one had recently been up Lambert Ridge Trail (at least they didn't make it to the junction) - from the junction the drifts were at least a foot deep - we went about a 1/2 mile breaking trail. With a change in the weather (could feel the wind picking up and temps dropping) - we decided to turnaround. It could have taken another hour or so breaking trail to get to the summit. All in all it was a great day to be out - We'll be back another day to get to the summit”
Trail: Trail No. 3, J Trail
Conditions: Snow - Unpacked Powder
“While driving to Green Woodlands I noticed that Lambert Ridge and Ranger Trails were both unbroken since the last big storm, but when I drove by 4 hours later there were two cars in the lot and a nice snowshoe track heading up Lambert Ridge.”
No routes available for this peak.
Elevation
3,238 ft
Range
Smarts Mountain
Difficulty
Difficult
Coordinates
43.8255, -72.0381
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