Puffer Pond Trailhead Plowed?

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  • lumberzac
    Beware of the Lumberzac
    • Apr 2004
    • 1730

    #1

    Puffer Pond Trailhead Plowed?

    I was planning on camping at Puffer Pond this weekend. Does anyone know what are the odds that the Kingsflow trailhead and road leading to it be plowed after yesterday’s storm? I’ve never been there, so I don’t know what to expect.
    A man needs to believe in something. I believe I'll go hiking.

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  • redhawk
    Senior Resident Curmudgeon
    • Jan 2004
    • 10929

    #2
    Can't tell you fopr sure Zac. I know that Warren County got one of the highest accumalations of snow so depending on who plows in there, i would imagine it's a low priority.

    Hey if you can't get in, you guys can always come by here. (FYAO VII) I assume?
    "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon B. Johnson

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    • forevrwyld
      Keith and Dad, Redfield Summit
      • Feb 2005
      • 197

      #3
      It's plowed by the Town of Indian Lake almost to the start of private land about 1/8 mile from its end. From there the owners of the Chimney Mountain Wilderness Lodge have contracted with someone to do the area around the camps and the partking lot. I have been there a dozen times in the past 5 years and it has always been plowed. I would not expect a problem.

      But then again.....

      -george-
      "The trail is what it is. If it goes up, over, under -- there is the choice to follow it or not. As for weather, it will be what it will be. One cannot choose conditions, only to hike or not to hike." AT Thru-Hiker

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      • Moses Atwood
        Member
        • Feb 2005
        • 144

        #4
        Lumberzac,

        I just spoke to the owners and the road is plowed. Hmmm... I just noticed your post was from the 15th, so maybe you already went in. If so, how was the trip? I heard they knocked down the old lean-to and built a new one.

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        • sacco
          no soup for you
          • Apr 2004
          • 1156

          #5
          zac couldn't make it.

          yep, it was plowed.
          new lean-to and outhouse.

          great trip!
          tough going... breaking trail was really ugly, really slow.
          sinking in to waist deep powder with 30" snowshoes on.

          will be a heck of a lot easier for anyone going in now!
          Fly Fisher's Anglers Association- a fine drinking club with a fishing problem
          www.GoFlyFish.org

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          • Moses Atwood
            Member
            • Feb 2005
            • 144

            #6
            I'll be up in the area next week, but I don't know if we'll get over to Puffer. (I live in PA) I love Puffer Pond. When I die, I want my ashes scattered over the pond...

            Have you ever seen the rock there with "Joe King 1870" carved in it?

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            • sacco
              no soup for you
              • Apr 2004
              • 1156

              #7
              nope. this was my first time time heading in there, didn't see much but snow.

              funny, i've gone by the area so many times on the way up towards parts further north.

              i'll have to go back this summer.
              Fly Fisher's Anglers Association- a fine drinking club with a fishing problem
              www.GoFlyFish.org

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