Mt. Washington Weather Advisory - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Swimmer · 01-14-2009, 10:43 AM

Wind steady at 91 m.p.h. gusting to 107 m.p.h.
Temp. -20.7 degrees
Wind Chill -68.? something friekin degrees. Really when its minus 68 degree wind chill, why include the tenths.

I love going on this site everyday. I have hiked all around there, but only in excellant weather. Thier are people who extreme hike this time of year although I can't imagine why.

Sorry thought I was in scuppers..................

RIJIMMY · 01-14-2009, 10:48 AM

Dont worry, Spence will be replying any minute telling you its really 98 degrees and sunny and why you are ignorant for even posting this.

striperman36 · 01-14-2009, 11:44 AM

Wow that's nice weather up there.

5/0 · 01-15-2009, 08:30 AM

The Jewel trail has takin many lives over the years It's a pretty extream enviorment,one of the worlds toughest places,most New englanders wouldn't think that since we live so close.

Swimmer · 01-15-2009, 08:37 AM

Just got through reading "Not without Peril". Its about the first 128 lives lost in this area, while hiking. There have been 141 lives lost total, 13 more since this book was written. Once hypothermia starts shutting down the body your done for.

spence · 01-15-2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

Dont worry, Spence will be replying any minute telling you its really 98 degrees and sunny and why you are ignorant for even posting this.

No, he based his post on facts with an easy conslusion.

-spence

Nebe · 01-15-2009, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by spence

No, he based his post on facts with an easy conslusion.

-spence

Mr. Sandman · 01-23-2009, 06:28 PM

That place is like the moon...you go there off season and you better have the right gear cause you aint' gonna last very long.

I went skiiing at Jay Peak last weekend. Woke up it said -24. I didn't leave the condo till 10am when it warmed up to -12. The next day it was +20 and it felt like a heat wave.

The Dad Fisherman · 01-15-2009, 08:50 AM

Temperature wise its warmer than Minnesota right now.....

jimmy z · 01-15-2009, 10:13 AM

That's a bit chilly.

likwid · 01-25-2009, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Swimmer

Thier are people who extreme hike this time of year although I can't imagine why.

Because its fun?
Been up there when it was -80 windchill, also been in Tuckerman's when the Valley was in the teens and the bowl was well into the 40's and downright gorgeous.

Swimmer · 01-25-2009, 12:31 PM

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Because its fun?
Been up there when it was -80 windchill, also been in Tuckerman's when the Valley was in the teens and the bowl was well into the 40's and downright gorgeous.

I have given some thought to cold weather, but not extreme hiking in the passt, but I am not in that kind of shape right now. Your a skier, and certainly beyond skiing you have the right outwear to be up there in those conditions. Usually by the time you realize hypothermia has set in it is probably to late, right?

I enjoyed your skiing pics. Missed them the last two years.

likwid · 01-25-2009, 12:43 PM

I have a spot of frostbite on my face from a couple years ago up on the snowfields on Mt Washington (above the bowl).

Hypothermia starts in with the shakes, but your mental capacity is so diminished by then that you don't even think about it.

I'll be back at this place in a month:

Grand Targhee, WY

Tuckerman's in March-ish.
Was 50ish in the bowl, started off in the AM at Pinkham Notch and it was in the single digits.

Swimmer · 01-25-2009, 12:44 PM

Jackson Hole the next place I want to go to for vacation.

likwid · 01-25-2009, 01:47 PM

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Jackson Hole the next place I want to go to for vacation.

There's a couple guide outfits (depending on time) that still fish all winter long along with snowshoe trips in BTNF/Yellowstone.

Its a good time and totally worth it.