Gary and I have actually climbed Mt Washington 3 times before we climbed up today. We don’t have a single picture of the first two times but we do have photos of the 3rd time, the time that Gary’s sister, Dawn and her fiance, Tom, climbed up with us.
Here are Tom, Dawn and I standing by what is called ‘undermined snow.’ There have been so many incidents where people have been seriously hurt by this type of unstable snow that they have signs warning of the dangers now. Obviously, we were not concerned when we climbed up. We were obviously climbing in cooler weather than we had when we climbed up today and we were wearing jeans. I can’t imagine hiking in jeans now that I’ve been wearing hiking pants.
Here’s the obligatory ‘End of the Trail’ photo with Dawn and me. When we all got to the top of the mountain and were sitting in the summit room both Tom and Gary were not feeling good. Whether it was the elevation, the food or whatever, the elected to take the hiker ‘stage’ down the hill. Since the stage dorve to the bottom of the auto road, it ended up about 1 1/2 miles from where the trail head. Tom and Gary got off before the end of the stage ride, hiked back to the trailhead along a crosscountry ski trail. They met us there and took this picture of the tired hikers. I think that by this time we had taken off our jeans and jackets and had changed into something cooler since the weather at the bottom of the mountain was much warmer.
This time it was I who did not hike down and Gary was the intrepid trekker. Whatever - it is a long hard climb up to the top of Mt Washington, we have done it 4 times and count ourselves lucky to still be able to do this.
I don’t have a clue why we have this picture. I guess Gary wanted a picture of the 3 of us and the sign for Pinkham Notch where the Appalachian Trail goes through and where the trailhead to Mt Washington is.
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