Mount Washington, NH

Mount Washington is the highest mountain in the Northeast US. It has the reputation as having the world's worst weather. We took the auto road up to the top. Other ways to reach the top are cog railroad and hiking. It was in the low 60's at the base. Here's the current weather conditions at the observatory when we arrived at the summit:

Temp: 37F, Wind chill:24F, Wind gusts in the 40mph range.
Mount Washington has the unofficial highest ever recorded wind speed, measured in 1934.


Here's the building where it was measured. Notice the chains anchoring it to the ground?

Mike at the summit.


Here is the Mount Washington Hotel. The veranda on the back side of the hotel is a great place to view the mountains while sitting in a rocker and sipping a martini. Mount Washington has over 300 days of fog. We were very lucky to view it on a relatively clear couple of days.