National Geographic Mount Washington Article

spongebob said:

There is an article in the February 2009 National Geographic magazine about Mount Washington.

The online link to the article is here.

There are some pictures in the photo gallery to the upper left of the article too.

I know boring post.....Reminds me what it must feel like to be JayH.

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He takes a few steps and then sinks to his hips in deep snow. He wrestles with his trekking poles and tries to push himself out of the hole, the heavy backpack fighting him. He takes another step, sinks again. Soon I'm postholing too, fir branches below the snow clawing at my legs. The process—step, sink, repeat—is exhausting, the price of an audience with Washington... We try three different paths, postholing for an hour, losing time and heat before we finally reach a nose of rock where the snow thins but the wind returns with violence. Jon is a dozen yards ahead when he suddenly falls hard, taken out by ice and wind. He stays down, a broken line of color in the whiteness. An injury would be very bad here, miles from help...

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Stinkyfeet said:

I finally got around to reading this article and am wondering if anyone else was bothered by what I assume meant they did not bring snowshoes on a Presi (or partial) Traverse.

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spongebob said:

There is an article in the February 2009 National Geographic magazine about Mount Washington.

The online link to the article is here.

There are some pictures in the photo gallery to the upper left of the article too.

I know boring post.....Reminds me what it must feel like to be JayH.

Click to expand...