After a full day of training, I headed up to do Hurricane from the north side.  The road to Crow Clearing was in pretty good condition, a couple small divots/washouts that were not hard to get over even in my tiny car.  The first mile in on the gulf brook trail was in great condition.  Only one blow down that people were going around, but was easy enough to get over.

Today it was Hurricane Fire Tower.  I chose to go up this one as training for winter hiking, being only a week or so before winter, and someone had reported a couple days earlier that they used snowshoes all the way.  I was pumped to use my snowshoes again.  Sadly, the weather warmed up and all I used was microspikes.