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On Thursday, the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire saw an intense snow storm overnight, leaving it looking like a winter wonderland.
Mount Hale is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. The mountain is named after Reverend Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), and is part of the Twin Range of the White Mountains . The western and eastern sides of Mount Hale are drained by the Little River and Zealand River respectively, and thence into the Ammonoosuc River ...
Other major highways in the region include U.S. Highway 302 (Woodsville to Conway), New Hampshire State Route 16 (from Gorham to Conway), State Route 10 (from Littleton to Piermont), and U.S. Route 2 from Lancaster to Shelburne. U.S. Route 3 parallels I-93, except north of Franconia Notch, where it branches off to Twin Mountain and Whitefield.
The resort is located on U.S. Route 302 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The terrain occupies 464 acres (1.88 km 2) adjacent to the White Mountain National Forest. 92% of the trails have snowmaking. There are 98 trails currently, and the resort receives an average of over 200 inches (5,100 mm) of snow per year.
The Mount Washington Avalanche Center described the avalanche as a "small, thin wind slab.". According to avalanche.org, a wind slab is "the release of a cohesive layer of snow (a slab) formed by ...
The Crawford Path ascending Mount Pierce, September 2014. The Crawford Path is an 8.5-mile-long (13.7 km) hiking trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that is considered to be the United States' oldest continuously maintained hiking trail. [1] It travels from Crawford Notch to the summit of Mount Washington (Agiocochook).
Mount Washington* — after George Washington (a general at time of naming in 1784, and only later a president) [3] Mount Clay — after Henry Clay (State of New Hampshire changed name to Mount Reagan after Ronald Reagan; U.S. government still recognizes Clay name) Mount Jefferson* — after Thomas Jefferson; Mount Sam Adams — after Samuel Adams
Mount Washington is an ultra-prominent mountain in the state of New Hampshire. It is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288.2 ft (1,916.6 m) and the most topographically prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River .