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Category Archives: Mt Washington State Park Mt Washington State Park, April 16, 2012The 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged ice climbing, pinnacle gully, Skiing, spring snow, Tuckerman Ravine |
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 Mt. Washington State Park, Monday April 9, 2012Eastern 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged AVSAR, crevasse, fatality, Huntington Ravine, Norman Priebatsch, open book, SAR, Search and Rescue, Snow Rangers, the "list", Tuckerman Ravine |
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 Mt Washington State Park: Monday, March 26th, 2012It’s been a record breaking weather week on the summit of Mt Washington. Temperatures for the summit shattered six daily record highs with the warmest recorded by MWO of 54F on Wednesday, March 21st. That’s 15 degrees warmer than the … Continue reading
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Tagged moving truck to 6 mile, Record Breaking Weather, Skiing, warm temperatures |
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 Mt Washington State Park, March 19th, 2012By the calendar this past week was still officially ‘winter’ but it definitely felt spring like on the summit of Mt Washington. We had all sorts of weather from light snow to rain to fog to stunning undercasts where the … Continue reading
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Tagged auto-road, corn snow, fog, slush, slush avalanche, spring, stilted hiker, undercast |
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 Mt Washington State Park Monday March 12th, 2012Sherman Adams Summit Building Guess I shouldn’t quit my day job just yet to become a weather forecaster. Last week I wrote that a series of low pressure systems could give us a Nor’easter on Friday. Instead we got record … Continue reading
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Tagged foliation planes, march skier, Mt Washington Commission, Prinoth Husky, test driving new snowcat |
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 Mt Washington State Park, Monday March 5, 2012We saw an interesting large dog print the other day on our trip up the mountain. Guessing it spanned well over 4″ from tip of claw to its heel pad. It was traveling downhill towards Pinkham at 2000′ elevation coming … Continue reading
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Tagged auto-road, avalanche advisory, coyote, dog print, low pressure developing, plowing, snow slabs, white out |
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 Working in the Cold: Mt Washington State Park Blog, Feb 27The BR 275′s Bombardier Snow Tractors are mechanical marvels. The way their unique parts fit together is minute compared to the likes of a Space Shuttle, however, they are still very mechanically and electronically complex machines. These snow groomers are … Continue reading
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Tagged 111mph, artic air, extreme weather, high winds, maintenance, snowcat |
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 Tuesday Feb 21, Mt Washington State Park BlogLast Thursday morning we met Muddy Paw Sled Dog Kennel Musher Chase at base of carriage road after he just completed a practice dog sled run up to the tree line and back. Chase will be taking another practice run … Continue reading
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Tagged Kevin Tilton, Muddy Paw Sled Dog Kennel, National Guard, Summits on the Air |
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 Mount Washington State Park, Friday Feb 10th 2012Mount Washington from the West Recently a caller asked us why is Mt Washington an ‘important mountain’? Good question and one with many answers. At 6,288′ it is the highest peak in New Hampshire and the highest point east of … Continue reading  Mt Washington State Park, Friday Feb 3, 2012Yesterday was ‘Groundhog Day’ which according to ancient German legend, if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on February 2nd there will be six more weeks of winter. If there is no shadow cast then superstition says it will be … Continue reading
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Tagged alpine glow, brocken spectre, George Hamilton, groundhog day, snow drifts, spring skiing, tuckerman's ravine, under casts |
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