TRIP
LOCATION: Mt. Moosilauke
MEETING
TIME: 8:30 am
NUMBER OF
PARTICIPANTS (INCLUDING LEADERS): 4
TOTAL HIKING
TIME (IN HOURS): 8:30 hours
LENGTH IN
MILES: 7.8 miles
TOTAL
ELEVATION GAIN (IN FEET): 2,932 feet; 1,880 feet in the first 1.5
milesDIFFICULTY: B (A=very strenuous; B=strenuous; C=average; D=easy)
LEADER
NAME(S): Bob Vogel
CO-LEADER
NAME(S): John Pereira and Paul Vermette
TRAILHEAD
PARKING LOCATION & DESCRIPTION: Trailhead parking was at Beaver Brook WMNF
parking area (adjacent to route 112) in Kinsman Notch. It’s a developed site
with an outhouse and parking for a couple of dozen cars. Parking area was well
plowed.
CAR SPOTTING
REQUIRED?: No TIME REQUIRED TO SPOT CARS:
WAS TRIP
WITHIN WHITE MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST? Yes
BRIEFLY
DESCRIBE SPECIFIC TRAILS HIKED AND TRAIL CONDITIONS ENCOUNTERED: Began with Beaver Brook Trail, then Benton Trail to the summit. Returned the same way. The trails had a decent hard packed base, but had some softer snow on top of it of about 6” that was packed down by a party ahead of us. Finding the beginning of the trail above treeline can be challenging (especially in poor weather conditions), but I was able to locate it with no issues because I hiked the trail a year earlier. Snowshoes was used up to the summit, while some used it on the way down and others preferred to use crampons or just regular boots.
Temperatures were in the high single
digits to low teens. Winds at the summit were gusting between 30 to 40mph.
