AMC SEM Post-Hike Trip
Report
TRIP DATE: 2/11/2016
TRIP LOCATION:
Borderland/BCT
MEETING TIME: 10:00
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS (INCLUDING LEADERS): 27
TOTAL HIKING TIME (IN HOURS): 3:15
LENGTH IN MILES: 5
TOTAL ELEVATION GAIN (IN FEET): negligible
DIFFICULTY:
C=average/D=easy (Would have been
D-easy without the snow, fallen branches)
LEADER NAME(S): Bob
Vogel
CO-LEADER NAME(S):
TRAILHEAD PARKING LOCATION & DESCRIPTION: Borderland main parking lot
CAR SPOTTING REQUIRED?: No
TIME REQUIRED TO SPOT
CARS:
WAS TRIP WITHIN WHITE MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST? No
BRIEFLY DESCRIBE SPECIFIC TRAILS HIKED AND TRAIL CONDITIONS
ENCOUNTERED:
Ames Boulder
Trail, Pond Edge, Swamp, Pond Walk, Quiet Woods, Pond Edge, Rockland St (to Rockland
Street), down Rockland St to continuation of BCT (still in Borderland) on
opposite side of Rockland St., BCT a short distance to first power towers. Back
via Rockland St Trail to Pond Walk too the parking lot.
There were
quite a few downed limbs on Rockland Street Trail. We picked up most of the
medium sized ones. (Some were too big to move, and there were far too many
small ones to pick all of those.)
WEATHER
CONDITIONS FOR HIKE: 20’s. A bit of snow before 10, but it stopped by 10. A bit breezy in the open on the power lines,
which is why we went back into the woods to eat.
OTHER
COMMENTS (problems, views, terrain, etc.)
We had a fun hike on trails ‘not normally hiked’. At our lunch stop (on
the section of Borderland Trail on the opposite side of Rockland St.) I asked
how many had ever been there before. No one had.
There was
one ‘tricky’ stream crossing on that section. Several rocks to hop across.. but
more tricky when snow covered and wearing snowshoes. I stood in the middle and
offered a hand to anyone wanting support, and we all crossed, twice, fine. But
a bridge would be a nice improvement. J
IMPORTANT:
Contact Hike Committee Chair ASAP with any medical emergencies or other serious
incidents.
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