Post by sugarloaf on Jun 18, 2010 11:32:44 GMT -5
Ridgerunner noted under Trail Updates that The Cohos Trail Association is making more trail news at the top of the Granite State.
According to Ridgerunner, NH land manager in the region, Sandy Young and several others, moved the two long donated steel trusses that were lounging alongside Big Brook Road downstream along Big Brook and installed the steel across the stream. Those trusses are in place now and are awaiting planking to make them truly safe to cross. Once those planks are in, the new Moose Alley Trail and the new Falls in the River Trail will be linked together into one seamless four-plus mile whole. That should make for a wonderful hike from Magalloway Road all the way to Second Connecticut Lake Dam...all of it off of Route 3.
Word has also come down that the new Round Pond Brook Trail is nearing completion. More than two-thirds of it has been cut and cleared as of this writing, and a log bench has been installed at the falls not too far from the northern end of the trail where it drops down from Round Pond Brook Road. A bog bridge section has been installed, as well.
Round Pond Brook Trail will start in the vicinity of the boat launch area at Round Pond and descend southward in mixed hardwood and softwood about two miles to Route 3 just to the northeast of Camp Otter Road. This new trail will be a critical link between the high country -- Mt. Prospect and Covill Mountain in the northwest -- to the big lake terrain in the south and east. It will allow folks moving out of Mt. Bungalow or Ramblewood Cabins and Campground and move over open summits and then downhill to within earshot of First Connecticut Lake. There, folks will be able to pick up the new Camp Otter Trail later this summer and turn eastward to tramp three miles out to Magalloway Road and the Moose Alley Trail trailhead.
Come up and get out there before you lose your mind playing video games.
--sugarloaf
According to Ridgerunner, NH land manager in the region, Sandy Young and several others, moved the two long donated steel trusses that were lounging alongside Big Brook Road downstream along Big Brook and installed the steel across the stream. Those trusses are in place now and are awaiting planking to make them truly safe to cross. Once those planks are in, the new Moose Alley Trail and the new Falls in the River Trail will be linked together into one seamless four-plus mile whole. That should make for a wonderful hike from Magalloway Road all the way to Second Connecticut Lake Dam...all of it off of Route 3.
Word has also come down that the new Round Pond Brook Trail is nearing completion. More than two-thirds of it has been cut and cleared as of this writing, and a log bench has been installed at the falls not too far from the northern end of the trail where it drops down from Round Pond Brook Road. A bog bridge section has been installed, as well.
Round Pond Brook Trail will start in the vicinity of the boat launch area at Round Pond and descend southward in mixed hardwood and softwood about two miles to Route 3 just to the northeast of Camp Otter Road. This new trail will be a critical link between the high country -- Mt. Prospect and Covill Mountain in the northwest -- to the big lake terrain in the south and east. It will allow folks moving out of Mt. Bungalow or Ramblewood Cabins and Campground and move over open summits and then downhill to within earshot of First Connecticut Lake. There, folks will be able to pick up the new Camp Otter Trail later this summer and turn eastward to tramp three miles out to Magalloway Road and the Moose Alley Trail trailhead.
Come up and get out there before you lose your mind playing video games.
--sugarloaf