Pig Pen
02-28-2007, 10:13 PM
Baxter State Park - North Brother, Fort, Coe, South Brother
This was a five day adventure to hike four of the New England hundred highest, one of which is a four thousand footer. The crew was MhrSebego, Onestep, Jerry the Animal, Hiker Ken, The Yeagermeister, and myself.
Day 1: Ski or Hike the 5.3 miles from the Telos Road to Nesowadnehunk Campground. Four stayed in the teeny-weeny bunk room, Jerry and I tented out.
Day 2: We decided to go for North Brother and Fort and see if we had time for Coe and South Brother. The trip starts with a 3.3 mile trip down the BSP tote road to the Marston Trail. The Marston Trail to North Brother had been broken out the previous weekend so we only had to break trail through about six inches of snow most of the time, about twelve inches near the summit. The trip from North Brother to Fort was a different story. The .9 mile whack took us two hours because the Fort was guarded by some very hungry spruce traps. We decided to save Coe and South Brother for another day.
Day 3: We took a rest day. I set the record for sack time, sleeping from 7:30 PM till 9:45 AM.
Day 4: Another trip down the tote road and up the now well packed Marston Trail. This time we hung a right at the upper junction with the Coe Trail to go for Coe and South Brother. The Coe Trail was totally unbroken. The trail breaking was mostly reasonable, we only got bogged down in a few steep places. We covered the 1.8 miles from the Marston trail to Coe in about two hours. We went back to the South Brother spur trail and had little difficulty breaking out the .3 miles to the summit.
Day 5: Ski/Hike back out to the Telos Road and get a police escort to get us to the Appalachian Café as fast as possible. All hands vacuumed down some high fat/high cholesterol breakfast items.
We had very good weather on all days. Lots of hooting owls at night (real ones, not us). We also saw a moose down in the Klondike from the top of Coe. Not a park ranger to be seen. This was my second time doing this trip; I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get away from the real world for a few days.
This was a five day adventure to hike four of the New England hundred highest, one of which is a four thousand footer. The crew was MhrSebego, Onestep, Jerry the Animal, Hiker Ken, The Yeagermeister, and myself.
Day 1: Ski or Hike the 5.3 miles from the Telos Road to Nesowadnehunk Campground. Four stayed in the teeny-weeny bunk room, Jerry and I tented out.
Day 2: We decided to go for North Brother and Fort and see if we had time for Coe and South Brother. The trip starts with a 3.3 mile trip down the BSP tote road to the Marston Trail. The Marston Trail to North Brother had been broken out the previous weekend so we only had to break trail through about six inches of snow most of the time, about twelve inches near the summit. The trip from North Brother to Fort was a different story. The .9 mile whack took us two hours because the Fort was guarded by some very hungry spruce traps. We decided to save Coe and South Brother for another day.
Day 3: We took a rest day. I set the record for sack time, sleeping from 7:30 PM till 9:45 AM.
Day 4: Another trip down the tote road and up the now well packed Marston Trail. This time we hung a right at the upper junction with the Coe Trail to go for Coe and South Brother. The Coe Trail was totally unbroken. The trail breaking was mostly reasonable, we only got bogged down in a few steep places. We covered the 1.8 miles from the Marston trail to Coe in about two hours. We went back to the South Brother spur trail and had little difficulty breaking out the .3 miles to the summit.
Day 5: Ski/Hike back out to the Telos Road and get a police escort to get us to the Appalachian Café as fast as possible. All hands vacuumed down some high fat/high cholesterol breakfast items.
We had very good weather on all days. Lots of hooting owls at night (real ones, not us). We also saw a moose down in the Klondike from the top of Coe. Not a park ranger to be seen. This was my second time doing this trip; I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get away from the real world for a few days.