The mountain has been going back and forth from record high temperatures in March to record cold temperatures in April. Rime Ice and Tip Top House Historic Site This past weekend weather observers noted a low temp of 4F which may have broken the record low April 28th temperature of 8F set back in the […]
Month: April 2012
NH State Parks’ Reach the Beach Relay Team
Who in their right mind would sign up for a 200 mile race? That’s what the Reach the Beach Race relay organizers asked the New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation when they generously offered the Division a relay team. Twelve crazy runners jumped at the opportunity. We may not be in the right mind, […]
Mt. Washington State Park: April 23, 2012
Last week summit crews helped remove slush and snow from the upper sections of the Auto Road. Getting the slush pockets off the road helps us not only from getting stuck One last trip with the little demo Cat, mired in slush Slim moving a slushalanche but we can switch back to trucks for transport instead […]
Dreams Come True near Crawford Notch State Park
I’m back! I thought I was done here, but I just had to share my story of hiking Mount Eisenhower near Crawford Notch State Park. Last Saturday, hearing that it was going to be a balmy 60 degrees, my future apartment-mates Molly, Caroline, Susan, Emily, and I headed up to tackle another 4000 footer. Joining […]
Mt Washington State Park, April 16, 2012
The White Mountains of NH Looking at the above photograph it’s easy to see how our “White Mountains” have received this name. The mountains are white with snow most of the year but also when free from snow in the summer months the high peaks above the 4,000′ timberline still have a whitish appearance when viewed […]
Mt. Washington State Park, Monday April 9, 2012
Eastern Slopes of Mt Washington Mt Washington started the week off last Sunday afternoon on a sad note. Let me first explain a little how Search and Rescue (SAR) on Mt Washington works. The 60-acre summit of Mt Washington is a NH State Park. The bulk of the mountain is part of the one million acres of […]
Looking for Moose in the Great North Woods Region/Visiting the Basin at Franconia Notch State Park
This weekend, my friend Molly and I set off on a quest to complete our sophomore year goal: to see a moose. Molly cheated and accidentally saw one last fall on Mt. Adams (what a jerk). We headed up north to the Great Woods region of Pittsburgh, New Hampshire so I could see one, too. […]
Mt Washington State Park, April 2, 2012
During the last week of March the mountain returned to more seasonal weather. The crew from the Mount Washington Observatory, this past week recorded a low temperature of -8F, 13.6″ of snow along with a peak wind gust of 113mph out of the North. Freezing fog in the latter half of the week created a […]