An inside look at life at the Mount Washington Observatory

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  • @greenspiritarts
    @greenspiritarts ปีที่แล้ว +209

    My father and fellow winter mountaineering companions were caught in a terrible winter storm one year up on Mt. Washington. This was in the late 60’s before any personal tech. Instinct and experience told him to find the observatory and abandon their igloos as the storm was going to get much worse. It did. The observatory was closed at the time and it was a more primitive structure back then. They broke in and it saved their lives. It was a 4 day white-out with -50 windchills. Incredibly, my dad’s dog, who had gotten separated in the white-out conditions was found alive as they left the station. He had curled up in a snow bank on the leeward side of the station and was completely encased in snow… but alive. They probably would have all perished if not for the observatory. Good to see so many young people working there now and it looks incredibly well appointed now compared to back in the day!

    • @BeeFunKnee
      @BeeFunKnee ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That was amazing to read! Truth is so much better than fiction stuff, in my opinion.

    • @a.w.thompson4001
      @a.w.thompson4001 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks for sharing these fascinating details.

    • @jackie-k
      @jackie-k ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I am so glad the dog survived and everyone else!! I can’t imagine being stuck like that and worrying about my pet!

    • @BeeFunKnee
      @BeeFunKnee ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jackie-k My guess is that it wasn't any warm fir that saved that pet dog, it was it's own warm love for it's owner and maybe even God's angels guarding over it. Otherwise it would have frozen solid, and quickly. I was caught in a surprise drop in temperature and a sudden blizzard I didn't know was about to come. I was hitchhiking just outside of Cheyanne Wyoming and decided to start walking down the interstate. The sun was out, so why not? Then it grew dark and the temperature suddenly dropped 70 degrees and the horizontal snow started pelting me. I hunkered down and the snow kept covering me. I could only stick out my arm when truck slowly went by. The first few couldn't even see me, but finally one did and stopped for me. I could feel myself trying to freeze solid. Another five or ten minutes and I would have been a statistic, another article in the papers. That dog surviving was a miracle.

    • @jackie-k
      @jackie-k ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BeeFunKnee I am so glad someone found you and yes I believe in miracles that are beyond this 3D world. Now I believe in a higher spirit, and the universe. I do believe the dog was meant to make it and there was something bigger working in favor of that group!
      Bless you and glad you are safe!

  • @tomking1890
    @tomking1890 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I did not see, or hear it mentioned here, but it is located in N.H.

    • @PA-Tammy
      @PA-Tammy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes

    • @DavidVanHelden1
      @DavidVanHelden1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh okay ....I thought it was in Maine ... I live in Washington and they had me all mixed up ...

    • @jrobbin24
      @jrobbin24 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yup. In the white mountains. I look at it everyday

    • @KandiKlover
      @KandiKlover 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ew libertarians state

  • @uscg75
    @uscg75 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    I was a lighthouse keeper off Cape Ann & Boston lights. It was the 70’s and the lights were called stag lights (no women). One of the never ending jobs was taking weather reading every 4 hours. The only difference was we also had to report the sea state. Of all my jobs in the Coast Guard this is what I enjoyed most. 2 weeks on 1 week off. Alone with on other person and a dog. I can somewhat relate to these people. I called it my escape from civilization. Best of luck and keep that weather coming.

    • @biff5856
      @biff5856 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sounds super to me. I would love a shot at being a lighthouse keeper. The ocean, the solitude. I would have no trouble sleeping listening to the waves.

    • @jason-hy8ci
      @jason-hy8ci 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice gig...... can catch up on all of that reading sitting in piles around the house.☝️

  • @joemikeska2657
    @joemikeska2657 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    The wild part is that in the grand scheme of things, Mt Washington isn’t all that tall. El Capitain in Yosemite is 1,000 feet higher at 7,569, and most of the High Sierra range is over 9,000 feet. Pike’s Peak more than double the height of Mt Washington at 14,115 feet. But the weather patterns of New England help make Mt Washington the icon it is for weather events.

    • @williamwertman24
      @williamwertman24 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Multiple storm paths cross the summit and with the shape and direction of the peaks it acts as a funnel.

    • @MrReymoclif714
      @MrReymoclif714 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      3 seperate weather patterns converge here.

    • @Mr91495osh
      @Mr91495osh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Plus Mt Washington has an fully manned observatory

    • @xtidnab
      @xtidnab 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      is the size of a mountain calculated by its elevation or by its vertical rise?

    • @williamwertman24
      @williamwertman24 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @xtidnab elevation above sea level. Turn on terrain on google maps, then you can see it. They do measure in prominence also but total elevation is the most common.

  • @nole8923
    @nole8923 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    It’s incredible how mount Washington in one of the lowest mountain ranges in the world, the Appalachians, when your atop it looks like you’re at the peak of the Himalayans. You wouldn’t expect anyplace in the Appalachian mountain chain to look like that just a few hundred miles from NYC.

    • @dentalnovember
      @dentalnovember 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      At one time in history the Appalachians were as high as the Himalayas.

    • @treyroob5863
      @treyroob5863 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Im guessing youve never been to the himalayas, because the white mtns do no look like similar.

  • @mikebunner3498
    @mikebunner3498 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I went to the highest spot in West Virginia years ago. The top was covered with a cloud. I had a blue jean jacket on. I walked out to and up on to the observation tower. My jacket was flapping like I was riding a motorcycle. The wind speed was nowhere as high as the ones in this video. I could feel the heat leaving me, so I went back to the vehicle. It was really cool!!!!! I think it is around 4,800 feet up. You can see all the way to Virginia from there on a clear day.
    This is a great video thanks to everyone involved. My hat is off to these observers!!! But not for long, too cold! THANKS.

    • @Femur15
      @Femur15 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Mikebunner3498 isn’t that Flat Top that you are talking about ?

  • @johnhoover7278
    @johnhoover7278 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    That’s a super cool job man

  • @carocarp5
    @carocarp5 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Climbed it on my Appalachian Trail thru hike. The change in weather going up is incredible. At the top, the fog was so thick the visibility was around 30 feet. People everywhere were calling out to find friends when they got separated. Hope to go back one day.

    • @biff5856
      @biff5856 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Congrats. Thru hiker. What an experience. I loved Bryson's book, "A Walk In The Woods".

  • @flok.8317
    @flok.8317 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great report! Well done, informative, offering fascinating images and commentary. Thank you!

  • @PA-Tammy
    @PA-Tammy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Been to the top about 15 times on my motorcycle and it always feels like the first time..

  • @vettepilot427
    @vettepilot427 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I would like to know more about the structure and the construction methods to withstand such extreme conditions (wind, cold temps, etc).

    • @writerconsidered
      @writerconsidered 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Steel I beams and insulation.

    • @edwinrodeo
      @edwinrodeo 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Google is your friend.

  • @p234oiuy
    @p234oiuy ปีที่แล้ว +20

    How come no one has ever seen the power plant that keeps the observatory warm during the winter?

    • @noway9880
      @noway9880 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Hey Paco! I looked into this for you. About 8 years ago the observatory was connected to the valleys electrical grid. However, prior to that and now as a backup the observatory was powered by diesel generators. The system has been upgraded now. There is about 2 hours of UPS battery power however if the grid pops off this is only used for about 10-15 seconds. The diesel gensets immediately start and pickup the load. The UPS is only really used so there is ZERO power loss. Shits awesome son. huehuehuehuehuehuehue

    • @richardthomas5362
      @richardthomas5362 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It is top secret. If they show you that then they would have to kill you :)

    • @CameronHuff
      @CameronHuff 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You think they are going to show you the alien tech that runs the place? They'd have to kill you afterwards!!

    • @KitKat_293
      @KitKat_293 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Ok you got us it’s run by elves

  • @MrHarryhere69
    @MrHarryhere69 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    From an engineering stand point I would like to know how the place was built and how they get power up there. Must have been a feat.

  • @AaronWireman-b8i
    @AaronWireman-b8i ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Imagine being the construction crew building that damn thing. 😅

    • @michlo3393
      @michlo3393 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The hardest part would have been dragging their cooler of beer up there.

    • @jimmylieb5225
      @jimmylieb5225 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🥶🥶

  • @Beauxtrux
    @Beauxtrux 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Drove there a couple summers ago...scared the shite out 'o me! But it was spectacular!

  • @damidnightgolfer
    @damidnightgolfer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    18 station cats since 1932 means 1 cat every 5 years. What is happening to all these cats?

  • @bobabooey285
    @bobabooey285 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Would love to do that, jealous

  • @kitbaker8521
    @kitbaker8521 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I always remember ‘Mahton’ Engstrom’s very popular weather reports from the top of Mt Washington in his wonderful down-east twang. Finest kind…

  • @davegeorge4757
    @davegeorge4757 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Damn that anchor had a hard time with “inhospitable”. 😂😂

  • @Podchynok
    @Podchynok 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I would like to know how it was put together to withstand such extreme weather.

    • @ILLIFIED77
      @ILLIFIED77 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's chained to the rock

    • @williamwertman24
      @williamwertman24 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The tip top house is actually built up with stone now but used to be just a low built building. All buildings at the top are engineered to withstand 200-250mph winds. The old stage coach building is chained to the mountain with 1/2"chain.

  • @ShawnBurner-ur1os
    @ShawnBurner-ur1os ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Been studying weather for years still can't figure it out.

  • @Falla76
    @Falla76 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    As reporters, it might be a good idea to let people know exactly where Mount Washington Observatory is. An outsider watching this TH-cam video might assume that it is in Maine. I had to look it up and observed that it was actually located in New Hampshire. If I have to look up its actual location - a pretty basic and important piece of information - then why do we need these reporters?

    • @joenewman6494
      @joenewman6494 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Thanks for that info I thought it was in Washington State just by the name but yea I agree a reporter leaving out critical information

    • @kitbaker8521
      @kitbaker8521 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      It’s a Maine TV station with a receiving area in which everyone knows Mt Washington.

    • @goldenretriever6261
      @goldenretriever6261 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It was a local tv story

    • @writerconsidered
      @writerconsidered 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Sorry for the oversight. Its a local station catering to local New Englanders who know where Mt. Washington is. We didn't think about it.

  • @liamwilson7549
    @liamwilson7549 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I experienced the weather when it gets real bad up there when I was little. The snow cuts like glass in the wind up there.

  • @gatorspad3632
    @gatorspad3632 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very cool piece, thanks!

  • @johnallen-hu5lu
    @johnallen-hu5lu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Road our Harleys clear to the top back in ‘18. Unbelievably beautiful. My favorite multi state bike ride to date.

  • @newmaniese
    @newmaniese ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Wish this piece was longer

  • @biff5856
    @biff5856 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'd wouldn't mind spending some time up there. Doesn't matter when. Other than when the the wind howls, I would love the peace and quiet. To view the aurora would be a bonus.

    • @Tenebarum
      @Tenebarum 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is amazing up there. We drove up on a clear day in July. We were dumb enough to think we could hike it, but the people who work in the mountains are really cool and recommended much easier hikes. Beautiful place.

    • @biff5856
      @biff5856 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Tenebarum Lucky you. It will not likely be something I'll get to do anymore. I'm 80.

    • @Tenebarum
      @Tenebarum 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@biff5856 This was 1996. I need to get back. But there's no reason you can't get there. There are vans that drive you up.

  • @nickruisi5569
    @nickruisi5569 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    And this can't be done w/ an automated station?

    • @Juandinggong
      @Juandinggong ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It’s a bullshit job and I wish I had it lol

  • @theck672
    @theck672 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love this video! Thank you!

  • @jfmmccoll9189
    @jfmmccoll9189 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Road my Goldwing up there a few times…unbelievable view,,very lucky clear and sunny oh yea and cold

  • @steveco360
    @steveco360 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Memorial Day weekend, 1972, a group of us about to graduate high school wanted to do something together before we all went our separate ways. Hiked the trail to the top, great time, great memories. Lakes of the Clouds were spectacular.

  • @raymondmartin6737
    @raymondmartin6737 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We have been up my Washington three times.
    1980 on the Cog Railway
    with my parents.
    2021 by the auto road,
    and Cog Railway again
    last year in August 2023. 😊

  • @brandykish7140
    @brandykish7140 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was an interesting video about how they live and work at Mount Washington glad they have a cat 🐈 named nimbus how much snow was that in December 👍❤️ what was that date though of the snow storm

  • @elaineteut1249
    @elaineteut1249 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    We visited Mt. Washington with a tour group in June of 2018. We rode the cog train up.

  • @gordonhall9871
    @gordonhall9871 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    where is John Kerry

    • @greenwich1754
      @greenwich1754 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      On a private jet cruising the world and pontificating the evils of fossil fuels.

    • @MrSTRLAWNS
      @MrSTRLAWNS ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Making up more bullshit!

    • @stevesmith3556
      @stevesmith3556 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Where is AL Gore?😂😅😂

    • @joewhite6421
      @joewhite6421 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stevesmith3556 Gore riding ' Do you know who I am ? . Kerry

    • @bobbys4327
      @bobbys4327 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Iran

  • @markfinn0
    @markfinn0 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Climbed it some years ago in late May. Some light rain, some fog - no unexpected weather (we had checked carefully before starting out). A fairly easy climb (I think it was 3-4 hours, and half that coming down), but amazing to see the change in vegetation as you get higher.

  • @MDR-hn2yz
    @MDR-hn2yz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting job for sure. 👍

  • @nachmanlebel4141
    @nachmanlebel4141 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can I take a ride on the snow cat ?

    • @edwinrodeo
      @edwinrodeo 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No it’s for scientific purposes only, you can drive Of course in the warm months. Get a bumper sticker at the gift shop.

  • @slayersboxer915
    @slayersboxer915 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    all i could think about is how good a of a horror movie setting vibes this gives me

  • @fraserconnell21
    @fraserconnell21 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happens to all the toilet waste??
    Is there a septic tank?

  • @NYLADY13601
    @NYLADY13601 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When the weather isn’t trying to kill you up there, it really is breathtaking. 💙❄️💙❄️

  • @svalbard01
    @svalbard01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This should be a reality show - I'd watch.

  • @ev1558
    @ev1558 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'd like to know how they built that place

    • @uuuultra
      @uuuultra ปีที่แล้ว

      In the summer

  • @OzMan9989
    @OzMan9989 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    My wife and I hike the summit on foot. Tough hike but so glad we did it.

  • @billy1673
    @billy1673 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Guaranteed a white Christmas up there!🎄🎅🏻☃️❄️🌨

  • @jimcarlson2252
    @jimcarlson2252 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Global boiling on Mr Washington is beyond cold and windy this year, record breaking. Very cool, actually frigid beyond imagination.

  • @ElSantoLuchador
    @ElSantoLuchador 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in the PNW, and we have many higher and more technical climbs, but we have nothing that approaches the weather on Mt. Washington.

  • @williamwertman24
    @williamwertman24 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They also didnt mention. That have live streams on their youtube channel and they also have current weather conditions on their web page. Yesterday was 12f with 50mph winds. A couple weeks ago it was near 0 with 80mph winds. Real feel of -30

  • @russianbot5554
    @russianbot5554 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How did they build that place?!

  • @judee00
    @judee00 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The anamometer broke at that MPH. I've either read that or watched a video that said that. It would probably be more, and we would still have the record.

    • @williampalchak7574
      @williampalchak7574 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The wind speed thingy also broke during Hurricane Camille in 1969. I think that was the wind speed record breaker, based on estimates.

    • @judee00
      @judee00 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@williampalchak7574 1996, Baro Island, Australia 253mph

    • @williampalchak7574
      @williampalchak7574 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@judee00 estimates.

    • @richstex4736
      @richstex4736 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@williampalchak7574 Ronco used to sell the Wind Speed Thingy.

  • @justintyme4690
    @justintyme4690 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just want to know how it was built up there

  • @gopokes09
    @gopokes09 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you guys do the news for memphis too?

  • @jaredh289
    @jaredh289 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These people just play Mario kart and live in fear of a cat.

    • @damidnightgolfer
      @damidnightgolfer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nimbus is not to be trifled with.

  • @richardthomas5362
    @richardthomas5362 ปีที่แล้ว

    I heard some of the buildings are chained to the top so the wind doesn't blow them off.

  • @saltydog3099
    @saltydog3099 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That was the scene for some of the book, Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac. But it was just a shack back then....

  • @randywaters7328
    @randywaters7328 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Interesting and unique!

  • @ramsfan709
    @ramsfan709 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lonely and miss family after only a 8 day shift? Sign me up!!

  • @biform13
    @biform13 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How much does this cost and who's paying for it?
    Automation.

  • @user-fw6vu3kz6l
    @user-fw6vu3kz6l 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What about cog rail?

  • @gulfstream7235
    @gulfstream7235 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been to some wild parties up there on Mount Washington...

  • @shaggydawg5419
    @shaggydawg5419 ปีที่แล้ว

    didn't they set the record back in 2021 or 2022? Minus 90 F or something like that.

    • @KevinBarry-j8w
      @KevinBarry-j8w 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No the record is -128.6 F,set in Antarctica in 1983.

    • @michlo3393
      @michlo3393 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KevinBarry-j8w That's standing air temp. I think the question is referring to windchill.

    • @KevinBarry-j8w
      @KevinBarry-j8w 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@michlo3393 Yes, but in this case, the standing air temperature was colder in Antarctica than the wind chill on Mt. Washington.

    • @michlo3393
      @michlo3393 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KevinBarry-j8w Gotcha.

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      -47 air temperature...-108 wind chill

  • @alancummings5651
    @alancummings5651 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Totally cool

  • @BeeFunKnee
    @BeeFunKnee ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That is so awesome! It felt like I was actually up there, too. I wish I could be there for several long weeks. I'd leave with friends I knew well and good, I'll wager. I do honestly know what it feels like to brave a hurricane's 100 MPH winds and rain pellets though. It was on Galveston Island in the 70's. Two friends asked me if I wanted to go to the seawall and watch one of them fly like a flag from a street sign pole. I ended up doing it also. Then, as they both had hunkered across the street behind a cement sign at a gas station, listening with a transistor radio pressed tightly to their ears for the reported wind speed, I had walked the best I could, step by step back to the seawall where I could barely tell the ground from the Gulf of Mexico. I had to lean forward with all my might just like that one guy in the video had done. I could tell I wasn't going to fall over though. I told my friends to wave their arms as a signal when the radio had said the winds reached 100 MPH. It was 95 when I had ventured back across the street. The rain hitting me had felt just like bb gun pellets. When I saw them waving at me, I let the wind carry me back to the sign post where I grabbed it and flew like a flag again. But then I was afraid to let go. I just knew the strong wind would carry me off, maybe even high up into the air and I'd be gone gone gone! When I finally did let go, the wind took me half way across Seawall Boulevard where I finally crashed to the ground and I just rolled the rest of the way to where my two friends were still hunkering. Then, we had to walk a few blocks back home as roof shingles and branches tried their best to hurt us. We made it without too much blood involved. I was the most damaged because of that rolling on the asphalt street bit. But I earned these "bragging rights" honestly. It's why I'm so "long winded" with my comment, even! I live in Portland, Maine now. I've been here for 26 years come next May.

    • @a.w.thompson4001
      @a.w.thompson4001 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow!

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd love to sit alone in the Sphinx Observatory for a couple years stewing in my hatred.

    • @BeeFunKnee
      @BeeFunKnee ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kishascape Either your hate would melt you down to nothing, or you'd melt your hate down to squat before it destroyed you.

  • @uuuultra
    @uuuultra ปีที่แล้ว

    Do they fool around?

  • @davidmotter5140
    @davidmotter5140 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would love it

  • @joenewman6494
    @joenewman6494 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow I would have loved to have that job.

  • @razorbackg.7004
    @razorbackg.7004 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don’t get it, why is the weather so unique there? The altitude really isn’t that high, the ski resort I go to every week is 3000ft higher up. What makes Mt Washington so unique when it comes to serve weather?

  • @lawrenceneuenii3564
    @lawrenceneuenii3564 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That would be awesome to do!!!

  • @mattm3729
    @mattm3729 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    3:19 I can’t believe how beautiful this is 😮

  • @VideoManDan
    @VideoManDan 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That skier at the end of the video has a long climb back up after going down that hill 😂

  • @ChrisB-xw7un
    @ChrisB-xw7un 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Please take very good care of that cat nimbus!

  • @glenpaul3606
    @glenpaul3606 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Back in the early 1970's, I drove from Toronto to North Conway NH in the dead of winter. All the way, the roads were snow covered and icy with blizzard cross winds for most of the first two thirds of the journey. My drive finally took me up and over Mt.Washington in a blizzard in the middle of the night. The roads were not ploughed and the snow was so deep, about 3 feet, that all the way down the mountain that it billowed up and over the hood of my full sized Oldsmobile as I ploughed my way down for hours in the darkness In hindsight, it was a terribly dangerous and arduous drive over the mountain that I made as a young and foolishly determined man. Today, more than 5 decades later I still remember that journey in detail and know it was by the grace of God that I survived it in the first place.

    • @writerconsidered
      @writerconsidered 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I don't think so. MT. Washington isn't a thoroughfare. I think you were on rt. 89 which drives through that region. Which is in-itself can be tough driving.

  • @joewoodchuck3824
    @joewoodchuck3824 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's a great place to visit in the summer.

  • @jason-hy8ci
    @jason-hy8ci 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WHERE........ do I Sign Up????

  • @jasoneverett
    @jasoneverett 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    0:45 she spoke for 5 seconds and immediately annoyed the hell out of me. Pretty sure a lot of people know what extreme cold and wind is like.

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Pretty sure her exact words were, "You can't really explain it to friends and family"...
      Perhaps she is more informed on the climates that those select few people live in, versus your random "lot of people", whomever they might be.
      P.S. Lemme guess, it's cold where you're at, presently?

    • @MizzMamaJane
      @MizzMamaJane 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Are you off your meds?

    • @writerconsidered
      @writerconsidered 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      As a Bostonian who has experienced -10 below F with 40 mph winds I can't imagine 0 F at 100 mph either.

  • @thomasklein4265
    @thomasklein4265 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've been there, way colder at the top than the bottom even in the Summer. COG railroad is the easy way up.

  • @christinemiller7238
    @christinemiller7238 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic!

  • @nanaplayz4769
    @nanaplayz4769 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome place

  • @davidevans3175
    @davidevans3175 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Went up there with my friends when I was 12. Sneakers and sweatshirts, no adults. At the top the wind almost picked me up and threw me over the side.

    • @greenspiritarts
      @greenspiritarts ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don’t know if it is still true but at one time Mt. Washington had the dubious record of being the “deadliest” (most fatalities) of ANY mountain on the planet for exactly this reason…people going up poorly prepared. Glad you and your friends lived to tell the tale!

    • @shaystern2453
      @shaystern2453 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@greenspiritarts they lied though

  • @kristinharrison674
    @kristinharrison674 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It kind of reminds me of the Yukon

  • @thecitizenjoan
    @thecitizenjoan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looks like Cobb’s dream within a dream within in a dream

  • @justintyme4690
    @justintyme4690 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would absolutely LOVE to camp there

  • @rivenfenton2820
    @rivenfenton2820 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Reminds me on my time in Antarctica. Except this isn’t nearly as intense. Cool job for being state side though.

  • @MizzMamaJane
    @MizzMamaJane 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Do they need a house mom?

  • @PJMCG19
    @PJMCG19 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My father was friends with Marty(IYKYK) and did some work on the observatory.

  • @catherinebreitfeller669
    @catherinebreitfeller669 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome !! Gorgeous !! I wouldn’t mind spending some time here as I absolutely love cold weather. 🥶❄️ Don’t know how I got stuck in Louisiana 😂😂🥵

    • @ILLIFIED77
      @ILLIFIED77 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So come up and visit!

    • @Chris_at_Home
      @Chris_at_Home 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Apply for a job in Prudhoe Bay. You get the cold, the camp life where the food comes with your room at a camp and you fly to work. Back in the 1980s I worked with a bunch of guys from La. Even the cook came from there and made the best Gumbo ever. Many still lived down there and commuted from there as we worked two weeks on , two weeks off.

  • @HoulieMon
    @HoulieMon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My sister and her daughter rode horses to the top ! Me I just took the cog railway !

  • @SpeedyCorky
    @SpeedyCorky 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    @0:03 did that newscaster just say "in-hospital" ??????
    DO BETTER

  • @christophersmith1155
    @christophersmith1155 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I WONDER WHAT RADIO COMMUNICATIONS IS LIKE FROM UP THERE. 10/11 AND 12 METER BANDS ? IM AT SEA LEVEL AND TALK AROUND THE WORLD FROM MIDTOWN MANHATTAN. EVEN ON MY 11 METER CB RADIO EARLY MORNINGS EUROPE IS A EASY TRANSMISSION.

  • @skooter6235
    @skooter6235 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’ve always had my doubts about that 231 mph reading in 1934.

  • @tybreakfastpastry
    @tybreakfastpastry ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder how that building was built in the first place…

    • @uuuultra
      @uuuultra ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In the summer

  • @kvl505
    @kvl505 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What an amazing place to be a part of.. Excellent news story.
    Apparently the whole place is run by a cat... 😄

  • @novantium3760
    @novantium3760 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    cool you happened to show up on the best day of the year

  • @michaelktm6061
    @michaelktm6061 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It only took until 2:31 before the Cult got mentioned! No surprise

  • @henryfokkema6622
    @henryfokkema6622 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Greatvideo

  • @greggreg2263
    @greggreg2263 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I would like to be trapped up there for an entire winter with a bunch of hot women❤😮

    • @edwinrodeo
      @edwinrodeo 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Their nerds.. probably lesies

  • @davemanone3661
    @davemanone3661 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My fantasy dream job is to be a lighthouse keeper!

  • @explorecriminalminds
    @explorecriminalminds 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This looks like a Climate Activists paradise

  • @skyw4278
    @skyw4278 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    they're only gone for a week....make it sound like their on the moon lol

  • @Southwest_Trailblazers
    @Southwest_Trailblazers 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only 6k?!?!