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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, July 7, 2011
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Charlie standing on the ledge that is the natural dam of Norcross Pond outlet. The beavers have built the dam up another couple of feet higher holding back a lot more water. Norcross and Nancy Ponds are at an amazingly high elevation of 3100 feet.
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who it was. We signed our names and wrote “Too Buggy”. Again we covered ourselves in bug spray but the flies on top were extra hungry and we were too. We ate our sandwiches while retreating. We followed the herd
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path back down, very carefully on the steep sections and the scree crossing. We managed to stay on what we thought was a path until about hal f way down when we came to a massive blow-down area. We didn’t bother to look for the path again and we thrashed our way down through striped maples and moose poo. We took 1:20 up from
the big rock and only 55 minutes to get back on the Carrigain Notch Trail.
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Four New Hampshire peaks on the New England Highest Hundred list do not have trails to their summits. Vose Spur, elevation 3862 feet, located north of Mount Carrigain is indeed very wild.
Since we came out fur-
ther west of the big rock I had a brilliant idea. The 2.8 miles from the end of the Carrigain Notch Trail to Norcross Pond was still a section necessary to help complete my red- line mission. I decided we should exit via the Nancy Pond Trail. Char- lie should have checked my math. I miscalculated the distance and forgot
to add the three miles of bushwhacking. I real- ized my error at the trail intersection. We’ve once hiked Car-
rigain via the Desolation Trail and going that way again would have been about the same distance back to the car vs. Nancy Pond to Crawford Notch but without an addition- al 3 miles of Sawyer River See PATENAUDE on 51
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