"Because it's there."

[thør]

We were, but we saw no point in doing that if we knew it was going to suck the whole time. Hauling all that shit up to above treeline just to decide that our window had closed was pointless.

There are days when people drive up to Glen Alps (here in Anchorage) and get to (safely........er, sort of) experience some pretty damn severe mountain weather.

 

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There are days when people drive up to Glen Alps (here in Anchorage) and get to (safely........er, sort of) experience some pretty damn severe mountain weather.

I can see that. Sometimes people drive or take the train up My Washington and get whacked by one thing or another.

 

[thør]

I can see that. Sometimes people drive or take the train up My Washington and get whacked by one thing or another.

5 minutes from the parking lot.....

 

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5 minutes from the parking lot.....

"Look! The buildings are chained to the ground. Why would they do that?"

 

[thør]

"Look! The buildings are chained to the ground. Why would they do that?"

The caretaker building is new, only a year old.......

120 mph is a good winter storm up there.

 

[thør]

http://mistercrew.com/files/2012/01/alps_01.jpg

 

[thør]

http://mistercrew.com/files/2012/01/alps_02.jpg

 

[thør]

http://mistercrew.com/files/2012/01/alps_03.jpg

 

[thør]

http://mistercrew.com/files/2012/01/alps_08.jpg

 

[thør]

http://mistercrew.com/files/2012/01/alps_10.jpg

 

[thør]

http://mistercrew.com/files/2012/01/alps_16.jpg

 

[thør]

More Alps in the 40s

 

[Peregrinator]

The caretaker building is new, only a year old.......

120 mph is a good winter storm up there.

Wait, do you mean Mt Washington or over your way? I guess either way is true.

Nice old alpine shots. That Tyrolean would stop your heart, huh?

 

[thør]

Wait, do you mean Mt Washington or over your way? I guess either way is true.

Nice old alpine shots. That Tyrolean would stop your heart, huh?

Just up the hill (here).......Mt Washington has higher recorded winds.


This thread needs:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxgrw0cS681qe1uelo1_500.jpg

 

[thør]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxgowynawb1r3gm72o1_500.jpg

 

[Peregrinator]

Just up the hill (here).......Mt Washington has higher recorded winds.


This thread need:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxgrw0cS681qe1uelo1_500.jpg

Recorded, but still, 120 mph is 120 mph. Most people get knocked over at 60.

Agreed, and she's gorgeous, whoever she is.

Chantal Mauduit:

http://photocdn.sohu.com/20060227/Img242044692.jpg

http://www.horolezec.cz/images/galery/gal_2436/lide/stredni/chantall.jpg

 

[thør]

Recorded, but still, 120 mph is 120 mph. Most people get knocked over at 60.

My meter hit 103 mph and 99 mph last month at home.

 

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My meter hit 103 mph and 99 mph last month at home.

Yowza. We don't get that kind of wind down here in the valley.

Here's a classic oops from Mt Washington:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/Peregrinator/IceAxeImpalement.jpg

 

[thør]

Yowza. We don't get that kind of wind down here in the valley.

Here's a classic oops from Mt Washington:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/Peregrinator/IceAxeImpalement.jpg

ouch!

 

[thør]

THWARTED: Minnesotan spends week hunkered down before quitting.

"For the second straight winter, Minnesota adventurer Lonnie Dupre is calling it quits on Mount McKinley after spending a week in a tiny snow cave while waiting for a break in the weather that never materialized.

Dupre, 50, spent seven days and six nights at 14,200 feet in his second effort to become the first person to make a solo January ascent of the 20,320-foot mountain.

Battling wind gusts that nearly reached 100 mph, according to his website, Dupre began his descent Friday, leaving behind the snow cave in which he spent a week hoping for the wind to subside and visibility to clear enough for him to continue moving up.

"I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another week of the daunting weather around the corner. You just can't climb being blown off your feet," Dupre said in a report from project coordinator Stevie Anna Plummer."

Full Story

 

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Not a hill, but a trek all the same

http://media.adn.com/smedia/2012/01/07/21/47/VMvqY.St.7.jpg

What Scott learned on fatal trek to South Pole
ANTARCTICA: His scientific work amazed researchers.

"A century ago, British naval Capt. Robert F. Scott and four members of his polar expedition trudged across the forbidding Antarctic landscape, "man-hauling" sleds across 800 miles of ice and snow in a desperate push to make it back to their base.

The Englishmen were suffering from frostbite, malnutrition, dysentery and probably heavy hearts: They were coming home with the knowledge that a competing expedition, led by Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had beaten them to the South Pole.

But halfway back to their base, Scott did something quite extraordinary. He stopped at the foot of a mountain range and sent one of his men to collect some unusual rocks.

"I decided to camp and spend the rest of the day geologising," Scott wrote in his journal on Feb. 8, 1912. "It has been extremely interesting. ... (Edward A.) Wilson, with his sharp eyes, has picked several plant impressions, the last a piece of coal with beautifully traced leaves in layers.""

Full story

 

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http://media.adn.com/smedia/2012/01/07/21/47/VMvqY.St.7.jpg

What Scott learned on fatal trek to South Pole
ANTARCTICA: His scientific work amazed researchers.

"A century ago, British naval Capt. Robert F. Scott and four members of his polar expedition trudged across the forbidding Antarctic landscape, "man-hauling" sleds across 800 miles of ice and snow in a desperate push to make it back to their base.

The Englishmen were suffering from frostbite, malnutrition, dysentery and probably heavy hearts: They were coming home with the knowledge that a competing expedition, led by Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had beaten them to the South Pole.

But halfway back to their base, Scott did something quite extraordinary. He stopped at the foot of a mountain range and sent one of his men to collect some unusual rocks.

"I decided to camp and spend the rest of the day geologising," Scott wrote in his journal on Feb. 8, 1912. "It has been extremely interesting. ... (Edward A.) Wilson, with his sharp eyes, has picked several plant impressions, the last a piece of coal with beautifully traced leaves in layers.""

Full story

Cool story, and what a great pic.

 

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Sorry double post, and an odd one at that!

 

[slave_]

Hello Pergy and thør!

I took a car ride up Mt. Washington. As I am sure Pergy knows, the road barely is a two car width. Anything wider than your standard car is not allowed. When I went, and it probably still is the case, there really are no girders along the road... some boradering boulders here and there.

When I reached the top and read the sign in book the comments were funny. I recall someone from Austria writing "Thank God for Valium!" Coming from an Austrian, that made me shudder!

There were similar comments that made me feel I was not alone in my fear!

Turning corners and coming down. OY! You HAD to make frequent stops on the side so you would not burn your brakes.

Frakking GORGEOUS and need to visit again!

Yup! 231mph, the highest windspeed recorded:

http://www.mountwashington.org/about/visitor/recordwind.php

 

[Peregrinator]

Hello Pergy and thør!

I took a car ride up Mt. Washington. As I am sure Pergy knows, the road barely is a two car width. Anything wider than your standard car is not allowed. When I went, and it probably still is the case, there really are no girders along the road... some boradering boulders here and there.

When I reached the top and read the sign in book the comments were funny. I recall someone from Austria writing "Thank God for Valium!" Coming from an Austrian, that made me shudder!

There were similar comments that made me feel I was not alone in my fear!

Turning corners and coming down. OY! You HAD to make frequent stops on the side so you would not burn your brakes.

Frakking GORGEOUS and need to visit again!

Yup! 231mph, the highest windspeed recorded:

http://www.mountwashington.org/about/visitor/recordwind.php

Just for you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BZh-7hkNe4