11.30.12 “I walked abroad in a snowy day, I ask’d the soft snow with me to play; She play’d & she melted in all her prime, And the winter call’d it a dreadful crime.”- William Blake That is the poem “Soft Snow” from the exceptional English poet and artist, William Blake, who’s birthday was this past […]
Author: Patrick Hummel, Mount Washington State Park
As the Park Manager of Mount Washington State Park, I oversee and manage the operations of the 60 acres of the summit of Mount Washington; the highest peak in the northeast US at 6,288'. Our Park is staffed 24/7, 365 days a year and is sometimes referred to as the "Home of the World's Worst Weather".
Previously, I served as the NH State Parks Volunteer Program Manager and before that, the Park Manager at Monadnock State Park, home to the most climbed mountain in the Western Hemisphere.
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Monadnock Trails Report 11.21.12
11.21.12 Here is a quick pre-Thanksgiving report from the Monadnock Trails this week. The trails are all in good shape following a week’s worth of favorable November weather, which will mostly continue through the holiday and weekend. Turkey Day (would it be Tofurkey Day for us vegetarians?) and Black Friday look like they will be […]
Monadnock Trails Report 11.16.12
11.16.12 “November has tied me to an old dead tree. Get word to April to rescue me.”- Tom Waits Last week, I was able to happily report of the first snowfall of the season on Grand Monadnock. Especially with the little amount that fell, not surprisingly, it is now all gone. And once again, Monadnock’s […]
11.08.12 Monadnock Trails Report
11.08.12 Welcome to the Monadnock Trails Report; an escape from election talk, fiscal cliffs, the Mickey Mouse take over of Star Wars (can they possibly sink that franchise even more?), the stock market, Twilight, Syria, Baseball Winter Meetings, and the continually frustrating NHL lockout. However, of course, we can’t escape talk about the weather. The […]
Monadnock Trails Report 11.02.12
11.02.12 Welcome to our post-hurricane edition of the Monadnock Trails Report. I want to start off with a genuine and heartfelt thank you to all police, fire, ambulance, rescue, and other personnel and volunteers that worked so hard before, during, and since the storm to provide help to their communities, wherever those communities may be. This […]
Monadnock Trails Report 10.26.12
10.26.12 After a fine evening last night carving pumpkins with my wife while watching the brilliant Boris Karloff in one of my favorite movies of all time, the 1931 Universal Monster classic, “Frankenstein”, I awoke this morning to ironic news reports of the NOAA dubbed “Franken-storm” that will likely be hitting the East Coast this coming […]
Monadnock Trails Report 10.20.12
10.20.12 “If the rain comes they run and hide their heads…” I’m sure you know the rest of that Beatles’ gem. And with the rain falling today, the trails are fairly quiet. Likely overnight thunderstorms may light up the skies over Monadnock before the rest of this weather system pushes out for the weekend. A […]
Monadnock Trails Report 10.13.12
After spending two weeks in a land with very few trees and coming back to Monadnock, I was in a Columbus Day weekend management haze, being thrown into the fire of the traditional busiest weekend of the year. It was only earlier this week, after I and the staff survived what turned out to be […]