Ike, Monroe, Washington (White Mts.) TR and Pics

“Lightning fried out my internet connection at home for a while, so it took me a while to get the report and pics up on my website, but alas, here you go:

http://www.jamieofthenorth.com/Ike,%20Monroe,%20Washington%20and%20Thunderstorms.htm”

“very awesome trip report Artex! The pics are really great.”

“that was a dumb TR, artex.”

“Excellent!! Cool fox sighting too.”

“Damn you, yam! Damn you to hell! Why don't you go make a pizza or something?”

“Heh heh... your new neighbor is quite the little rabble rouser.”

“LOL@Yam!! I don't wanna say now what I think. :( Do I have to?”

“nice report and pics, Artex!”

“Nice trip.


The south north hike is great.



I am doing it in mid july with my wife and kids (ages 10 and 7).


We'll stay at Mizpah and Lakes.



I have done it probably a dozen times running in both diretions.

Once with my parents in 1980 when we were doing a hut traverse.

We got started from Mizpah, got caught in awesome thuder and lightening all the way across the ridge to Lakes.

I was running from Krumkrotlz (sp??) patch to patch and lying on the ground.

My mom was yelling at me to wait for them (as if!!!). I would crouch in the scrub as they picked their way toward me. There was really nowwhere to hide up on the ridge. It was a pretty quick trip considering they were in their 50s at the time! A scary scary traverse under stupid conditions.

We shouldn't have done it, but were hung up on making our reservation at Lakes.

The next day was worse, from a different perspective.


We hiked Lakes to Madison in 40 degree heavy fog. We were all wearing our wet COTTON from the day before.

When I arrived at madison i was completely hypothermic.

It took me several hot chocolates, wrapped in wool blankets to even begin shivering. And when I finally started it was uncontrollable.



Ahhhhh Parents . . ..


I hope to do the same for my kids.”

“Great trip report and pictures! It made me quite homesick though, I miss my college days of wandering the Whites.”

“Enjoyed the report and pictures. Isn't Mt. Washington the place where they recorded the lowest temp in the lower 48?”

“Thanks for the cool words, everyone.

Solitary Hiker, I don't think so. But it does have THE worst weather in the world, according to meteorologists. Below are some stats taken from their weather observatory's website:

Highest wind (world record, April 12, 1934): 231 MPH
Average wind velocity for the year: 35.3 MPH
Lowest temperature (state record, January 1934): -47°F
Highest temperature (August 1975, June 2003): 72°F
Average temperature for the year: 26.5°F
Average annual snowfall: 256 inches
Maximum snowfall in a season (1968-69): 566.4 inches
Maximum snowfall in a calendar year (1969) 495.2 inches
Winds exceed hurricane force (75 MPH) on an average of 104 days a year
The summit is in the clouds about 60% of the time
Fog is reported (for at least part of the day) over 300 days a year”

“the weather on Mt. Washington makes the weather on Mt. Mitchell look like a picnic and the weather on Mitchell is no picnic.”

“Excellent Trip report and Pics, Thanks for sharing.”