This weekend it is really starting to feel like spring is here in the mountains. The Cog Railway is operating weekends and was able to make it all the way to the summit on Saturday and Sunday. The Mt Washington Auto Road, is open to the tree line for private cars and with a little […]
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Mt Washington State Park: April 30th, 2012
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mt Washington State Park: Monday, March 26th, 2012
It’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 record high for that day. In March temperatures should average well below freezing, with lots […]
Mt Washington State Park, March 19th, 2012
By 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 clouds are below the summit. Our summit weather stations’ web camera network caught some interesting […]
Mt Washington State Park Monday March 12th, 2012
Sherman 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 high temps some rain on Friday and a peak gust at 120mph. Not the snow […]
Mt Washington State Park, Monday March 5, 2012
We 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 from Great Gulf. Maybe it was just a large Eastern Coyote but when I saw […]
Working in the Cold: Mt Washington State Park Blog, Feb 27
The 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 highly specialized for the work they are designed to do which is grooming alpine ski […]