Bear notch area and Ossipee.

dpassmore25 · 01-30-2012, 06:56 PM

My father and I are considering trailering from moultonborough to either bear notch or ossipee. The ossipee site seems to be listing good conditions anywhere but the railroads. Has anyone been around the trail system lately? The webcam on their site shows a lot of tracks and the video of someone's Sunday ride looked nice.
Our second option is bear notch. Nhsa.com reported a very good base with good togreat riding. Has anyone been around there? Can anyone suggest one over the other, keeping in mind that the rise to notch would be about twice as long.
We plan on going Thursday morning, the only complication could be the warm weather Wednesday. I don't see it taking too much of a toll if bear notch is as snowy as they say.
Any input would be great guys!

surfnsnow · 02-08-2012, 09:35 AM

i am also thinking about bear notch for up coming weekend. does anyone know a good place for parking with trailer?
thanks in advance

Irrigation Guy · 02-08-2012, 09:39 AM

Bear Notch will have a lot more snow and more miles of groomed trail available. Very popular there on weekends and even Fridays with the lack of snow around but if I could go on Thursday I'd jump at the chance.

Ryan · 02-08-2012, 12:07 PM

We bit the bullet and trailered up to Berlin last Saturday. Parked at Jericho Motorsports and rode the trails north and south of that location. Trails were all great. Plenty of snow. Put in a total of 80 miles from 9:30am - 2pm.

If you don't mind a little extra drive, worth the trip, IMHO.

Macblood · 02-08-2012, 12:46 PM

Trailered to Stark on Saturday. Did 135 miles from Nash Stream to Errol, to Southeast of Pittsburg to SDR and back again. Great trail conditions except for logging and low elavations around Colebrook area on 5S. Also the closure of the Kingsman pass trail by the Balsams caused me to back track a bit.

ishoot308 · 02-08-2012, 02:36 PM

We also went to Pittsburg last weekend and rode a total of 240 miles on Friday and Saturday. We rode the trails from the Canadian border down to Errol across to the Vermont border and everything in between. All trails we rode were fantastic!! Plenty of ice (12"+) on the Connecticut lakes with a good snow cover so crossing was no problem and fun!! Corridor 5 was dream!!

Dan

dpassmore25 · 02-10-2012, 10:53 AM

I'm going up to Ossipee this Sunday, if we get two inches that is predicted the trails should be pretty good. They were very nice last week once you got a few miles into the Ossipee system.

01-30-2012, 06:56 PM	#1
dpassmore25 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 13 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Bear notch area and Ossipee. My father and I are considering trailering from moultonborough to either bear notch or ossipee. The ossipee site seems to be listing good conditions anywhere but the railroads. Has anyone been around the trail system lately? The webcam on their site shows a lot of tracks and the video of someone's Sunday ride looked nice. Our second option is bear notch. Nhsa.com reported a very good base with good togreat riding. Has anyone been around there? Can anyone suggest one over the other, keeping in mind that the rise to notch would be about twice as long. We plan on going Thursday morning, the only complication could be the warm weather Wednesday. I don't see it taking too much of a toll if bear notch is as snowy as they say. Any input would be great guys!

02-08-2012, 12:07 PM	#4
Ryan Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mass/Gilford Posts: 247 Thanks: 216 Thanked 70 Times in 33 Posts	Berlin We bit the bullet and trailered up to Berlin last Saturday. Parked at Jericho Motorsports and rode the trails north and south of that location. Trails were all great. Plenty of snow. Put in a total of 80 miles from 9:30am - 2pm. If you don't mind a little extra drive, worth the trip, IMHO. __________________ Please do not feel the trolls.

02-08-2012, 12:46 PM	#5
Macblood Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 13 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Groveton Errol Pittsburg Trailered to Stark on Saturday. Did 135 miles from Nash Stream to Errol, to Southeast of Pittsburg to SDR and back again. Great trail conditions except for logging and low elavations around Colebrook area on 5S. Also the closure of the Kingsman pass trail by the Balsams caused me to back track a bit.

02-08-2012, 02:36 PM	#6
ishoot308 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Gilford, NH / Welch Island Posts: 5,926 Thanks: 2,285 Thanked 4,938 Times in 1,914 Posts	Great Riding We also went to Pittsburg last weekend and rode a total of 240 miles on Friday and Saturday. We rode the trails from the Canadian border down to Errol across to the Vermont border and everything in between. All trails we rode were fantastic!! Plenty of ice (12"+) on the Connecticut lakes with a good snow cover so crossing was no problem and fun!! Corridor 5 was dream!! Dan

02-10-2012, 10:53 AM	#7
dpassmore25 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 13 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Ossipee I'm going up to Ossipee this Sunday, if we get two inches that is predicted the trails should be pretty good. They were very nice last week once you got a few miles into the Ossipee system.

02-08-2012, 09:35 AM	#2
surfnsnow Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 173 Thanks: 133 Thanked 52 Times in 29 Posts	i am also thinking about bear notch for up coming weekend. does anyone know a good place for parking with trailer? thanks in advance

02-08-2012, 09:39 AM	#3
Irrigation Guy Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Moultonborough, NH Posts: 484 Thanks: 89 Thanked 138 Times in 72 Posts	Bear Notch will have a lot more snow and more miles of groomed trail available. Very popular there on weekends and even Fridays with the lack of snow around but if I could go on Thursday I'd jump at the chance.