THE COHOS TREKKER

President's Message

Welcome to the new Cohos Trail Trekker. We hope you find the new format useful as well as entertaining. Please let us know what you think. We have tried to shorten things up a bit and will send it out monthly.

There is going to be a great deal of trail work done in the north country this coming spring and summer and we will be looking for volunteers to help us. Donations to help cover the costs would also be greatly appreciated.

Just a reminder that it's time to renew your memberships! Also, there are new items added to the Trail Store.

Hope to see you on the trail !

Pete

THE COHOS TREKKER - by K. R. Nilsen
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GETTING TO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

When the weather breaks in 2009, The Cohos Trail Association hopes to begin cutting and opening new trails in all new terrain at the very top of New Hampshire. After a great deal of work in the Upper Coos forests in 2008 -- exploring routes, obtaining grants, GPSing, slogging in the wet, walking proposed pathways with State Trails and Fish and Game personnel and private landowners, we have developed a substantially new route... Read More....

PROSPECT MOUNTAIN TO BIG BROOK BOG

Right this minute, almost all landowner permission forms are in hand to create a new trail from Mountain Bungalow hut and rustic Bear Ledge Campground on Danforth Road over Prospect Mountain, with its open summit and extensive views, to Ramblewood Cabins and Campground... Read More....

BIG BROOK BRIDGE TO SECOND CONNECTICUT LAKE DAM

Big brook bridge marks the start of a second proposed trail we hope to have open by autumn of 2009 or summer 2010, the Little Falls in the River Trail. If we can get this trail cut, it will open the way to a rarely visited natural flume-step falls environment that thunders with noise and power...... Read More....

PARK AND HIKE

Pondicherry Wildlife manager David Govatski reports that the Col. Whipple Trail from Whipple Road in Jefferson to Cherry Pond will be fronted by a four-car parking area. Construction on the parking lot will begin this summer making access to the refuge from the north more convenient.

SUGARLOAF REBUILT

The Kingdom Corps trail crew associated with the NorthWoods Stewardship Center at East Charleston, Vermont, completely rebuilt the frequently hiked Sugarloaf Mountain Trail in the Nash Stream Forest.
Last summer, the crew created some 70 rock water bars and ditched to help move water off the trail and reduce erosion. No physical work had been done on the trail in decades and growth had not been clipped back in recent memory. Today the trail is in terrific shape.
For those who have never hiked Sugarloaf, it boasts one of the finest 360-degree views in the mountains north of the Presidential Range.

TENT PLATFORMS FOR DIXVILLE NOTCH

For a couple of years, the Cohos Trail Association and Sandy Young, who manages State of New Hampshire recreation facilities and properties in northen Coos County, have tossed around the idea of creating several hiker tent platfors near Huntington Falls in the Dixville Notch wayside a little ways off Route 26...... Read More....

MOUNTAIN BUNGALOW

Most folks don't know that the Cohos Trail Association operates a small hut on Prospect Mountain in Pittsburg, next to the home of Pete and Lainie Castine. The structure has two rooms and a functioning kitchenette. It can sleep five or six people comfortably and there is room to sit about and relax.
Overnights at the Mountain Bungalow are inexpensive. Call 603-538-6777 for details or go to the Cohos Trail website for information and photos of the facility.

STAY AT PIKE POND

Wayne Montgomery of Stark has developed cabins on Pike Pond. They stand within less than a mile of the Cohos Trail as it winds through the southeastern corner of the Nash Stream Forest. There is a snowmobile trail that connects the CT to Pike Pond. This spring we will attempt to get permission to put up a sign indicating hikers can turn off the CT toward Pike Pond to take advantage of the Pike Pond Cabins. Go to www.pikepondcabins.com for details

THE LAST WORD

By this summer, the Cohos Trail will pass within less than a mile of six small private businesses that offer accommodations to guests, the Rosebrook Bed and Breakfast on Route 115A in Jefferson, Pike Pond Cabins off the Bell Hill Road in Stark, The Sportsman's Lodge on Big Diamond Pond in Stewartstown, Rudy's Cabins and Campground on Clarksville Pond in Clarksville, the Mountain Bungalow on Prospect Mountain in Pittsburg, and Ramblewood Cabins and Campground above First Connecticut Lake in Pittsburg.... Read More....

That's it for now. If you have Cohos Trail News or information about Coos County, send it along to cohos@cohostrail.org

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