Cabot & the Bulge from Mill Brook Road

[Mike P.]

Date(s) Hiked: 11-17-2007

Trails(s) Hiked: Unknown Pond & Kilkenny trails

Total Distance: about 10 miles

Difficulty: moderate for this time of year

Conditions: A couple of inches at the trailhead along with some water & mud, as you got higher as expected snow got deeper. One or two trees down, easily passed, several widow makers still hung up ready to let loose. Near the top of Cabot one drift was about knee high.

Special Required Equipment: warm clothes, heavy waterproof boots as footing was kind of tough, enough snow to cover some rocks, not enough to keep you from sliding off angled rocks or covered roots. Snowshoes from the Horn spur path could have been helpful but not bad without. A thin balaclava was nice to have when going downhill through hardwood forest

Trip Report: Where was the mostly sunny day? Light flurries & blowing snow all day, visibility was only a couple of hundred feet so I skipped the Horn which would have had the best view but also the toughest footing. Still a nice day. Mill may be closed soon but some logging appears to be going on (maybe it's from earlier in the year) so maybe it will stay open longer, check with USFS.

[MichaelJ]

This was the route I took (in mid summer) to Cabot and it's really a beautiful trail. Sorry you had no views; it all depended on where you were, as I'm told the Willey Range had bright blue skies with views of huge clouds atop other peaks.

[Mike P.]

I prefer this route to the other open routes, the walk along the brook is nice & if views available, the Horn is one of the best.

[Mike P.]

Mill Brook Road is now closed.