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  • 05-16-2026 Spring Presidential Traverse

    Friday night stayed in Gorham at Top Notch Inn. Made the reservation Wednesday night after watching the weather forecast stabilize a bit. Even the morning of the traverse the winds were predicted by MWOBS/NOAA to be 45 MPH sustained on Washington with gusts up to 55 MPH. This was wrong, i dont know what the…

  • 04-25-2026 Cog Washington 2x

    Started this hike at about 730 from the Cog parking lot. They have added an electronic payment kiosk for parking permits. We did not carry snow shoes. Sections of the route that we took (up the cog, down to Lake of the Clouds Hut, & back up) could have benefited from use of snowshoes, but…

  • 01-31-2026 Mount Carrigain

    The night before this hike stayed in North Conway. This made the drive time to Sawyer River Road short. The lot is plowed. The hike started at 0730 & the temperature at that time was -8F. This was an official AMC NH Chapter hike. The snow on the trail was sand quality. Anything but snowshoes…

  • 10-17-2023 Washington via Jewell

    Started this hike around 330am from Ammo parking lot. I can’t recall a time where i had worse visibility due to mist/basically being in a cloud all the way up to 5400 feet. The entire trail was soaked due to said mist & the small amount of rain that had fallen the night before. At…

  • 6/11/2023 Mt Washington from LoTC, Clay Loop, Jewell Trail

    Stayed at LoTC hut Saturday night after coming up the Ammo trail in much rain (I am an AMC NH leader). The next morning decided to do a sunrise hike of Washington with optional Jefferson depending on how much I wanted to bite off. The Thursday before we went up reports were that 5 inches…