Mount Washington

We might be entering peak fall foliage season in much of New England, but on Mount Washington, it already looks and feels like the depths of winter. There was plenty of snow at the summit of the mountain, the tallest peak in the Northeast that’s famous for its extreme weather, on Thursday, while temperatures were in the 20s with...

A backcountry skier has died on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington in icy conditions, officials said Sunday. At least two people were rescued during a search that extended through a stormy night and into Sunday morning. The U.S. Forest Service identified the skier who died as Madison Saltsburg. She fell about 600 vertical feet (183 meters) on Saturday afternoon in very…

Authorities rescued a man suffering from hypothermia and frostbite after reporting a fall and injury in the Ammonusuc Ravine of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington on Saturday. New Hampshire Fish and Game says they responded to a 911 call from 22-year-old Cole Matthes, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire reporting that he had an injury and needed help. Conservation Officers on the Advanced…

Staff at New Hampshire’s famed Mount Washington Observatory were treated to a surprise visit Monday — a clump of clouds resembling a stack of flapjacks that floated over the tallest mountain in the Northeast.

Authorities rescued a New Hampshire man after he suffered a life-threatening lower leg injury during an avalanche while skiing on Mount Washington on Saturday. New Hampshire Fish and Game says the man, identified as 30-year-old Dominic Torro from Bow, was skiing through the area known as “Airplane Gully” with a friend when he triggered an avalanche and suffered the life-threatening…

A Colorado runner raced through cold drizzle to the summit of New England’s tallest peak, finding a finish line nearly obscured by fog, to win the Mount Washington Road Race on Saturday. Joseph Gray, 39 of Colorado Springs, won for a record-tying seventh time in a time of 1 hour, 24 seconds, followed by Sam Chelanga, 38, of Colorado Springs,…

With Saturday’s snowfall, this is now Mt. Washington’s snowiest June on record since they began keeping data in 1932.