Mt. Washington 1 Billion Years ago…

By: Sam
September 21, 2009 1:45 pm | Category: Skiing | 7 Comments | Permalink

I was messing around with photoshop last night, tweaking a panorama I had made last week. I was working on making one of the orb’s Greg posted up earlier this summer, but the half way result ended up more interesting than the final product.
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…ugh it needs to snow soon…


TR: Night in the Whites

By: Sam
September 20, 2009 10:59 am | Category: Full Trip Report, Hiking | Comment | Permalink

A group went up to spend an evening with Clay and see what the whites looked like after sunset.
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First Widespread Freeze Possible…Winter is on the way

September 18, 2009 10:07 pm | Category: Weather | Comment | Permalink

The kids are back to school, the leaves are changing, Donovan McNabb is injured, the nights are getting colder-boy I love fall. And this weekend fall will arrive. Big time.

I wanted to write about this earlier this week but I got stuck doing important attorney stuff. (Puke in mouth). I only ended up tipping off a few people that Mt. Washington could have their first “whitening” this Saturday night. Fail boat on me. Sorry. I’ll be better- I promise!

Anyway here’s the short story- over the next 24 hours a small trough will swing down out of Canada and bring a pool of cold air through the north country. As it moves along a few flakes could fly far up in Maine and NH.
More importantly, for a large portion of ski country, Saturday night will mark that night that we leave summer behind. Along with the trough and pool of cold air, a high will begin to build in to the area and clear all the clouds out of the area. As sat night progresses, radiational cooling will get going in full gear. (Radiational cooling for those that don’t know is effect whereby the heat build up on the surface of the earth by the sun’s energy during the day essentially “evaporates” into the air. The clear the night and the drier the air the more latent heat can bleed off. We notice it more in fall because the sun is strong so heat can build up, the air is dry and the nights typically clear.) By the time we wake up sunday morning I wouldn’t be surprised to see a widespread area of frost. From the Catskills, through the Berkshires, the Greens, Whites and ‘dacks fall will be in full force as temps above 2000ft will fall below freezing. In the ‘Dacks in northern Greens and whites some temps in high altitude depressions temps could even fall into the lower 20s. Sweeet!

P.S. – Stay tuned this week I’m going to post some weather related stoke!


Snow on the EC tonight?!

By: Greg
September 18, 2009 10:35 am | Category: Skiing | Comment | Permalink

It’s in the forecast for the Katahdin!

Go check out the weather around the East’s mountains, and read about it from our bloggers Scott and A.J. in the freshly redesigned weather section! Click on the link to see a NH/ME forecast, and click on the link for the Katahdin to keep track of what’s going on up there.

And if you see something amiss with the weather page, or if there is something you would like to see added, drop us a line.


TR: The North Shore of Hiking: A Presidential Range Traverse

By: Sam
September 16, 2009 1:10 pm | Category: Full Trip Report, Hiking | Permalink

Greg and I did the Presidental Range Traverse in a day. Well… more like a half a day.
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