People summit mountains in the Rocky's all the time during winter without issue and they go to 15000ft. Why is Mount Washington so much harder despite being under 7000 ft?
>>2796557>Mount Washington You mean the mountain that people can drive to the top of? The mountain that they sell bumper stickers for, for driving to the summit?https://mt-washington.com/bumper-sticker/
>>2796557>People summit mountains in the Rocky's all the time during winter without issue and they go to 15000ft.First of all, no they don't. Second of all, only the deranged and the addicted attempt technical and otherwise difficult summits during winter. There are different trails for different times of the year and winter trails are designed to avoid as much of the nasty stuff as "climbing a mountain in the middle of winter" brings to mind even if it adds 5+ miles compared to the summer route. Thirdly, the vast majority of the peaks that get climbed in winter are the "easy" ones.>Mt. WashingtonI don't know shit about Mt. Washington but I'd be willing to bet $100 that the main reason it kills so many people is those same people thinking "what difference does a little snow make?" because that happens everywhere there are mountains.t. colorado pro
>>2796613Yeah, just like Pike's Peak.
>>2796557Canada shits on it and the topography is flat and gay and wide open and so the storms just go buckwild absolutely nothing to do with technical ascent
>>2796557The weather is just super killer in the mt washington area. It's not that technical but the wind gets so bad you'd have to be really hardened or a masochist to summit. In comparison, when I went to do an attempt on mt of the holy cross in the colorado rocky area in january, I spent 4 days out with perfect weather conditions the entire time. It sounds like washington just doesn't get many calm days in winter
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>>2796613OH GAWD IM SEEEETHIN
weather .scotlands highest peak is only 4000ft yet dozens of people die in scotlands hills each year, often experienced mountaineers/hikers. the reason is the volatile weather. plus the modest altitudes lure people into a false sense of safety. >it's only a 3500ft peak, what could go wrong?>it's 30f at trailhead, cant be much different up there..>it looks perfectly clear from down herethen you get up above 3000ft and find yourself in a whiteout with -10F windchill. and this kind of weather comes out of nowhere in places like the scottish highlands or Mt Washington.
>>2796613Oh no no no!!!!
>>2796557>>2796628This. It can be a pleasant day in the 40s in the rest of NH but you head to Mt. Washington and it's like you've stepped into the Yukon.
>>2796637I have much respect for scottish winter climbing and also the general climbing etiquette that the uk harbors. honestly one of my lifetime goals is to at least follow a mixed route or gully at the ben
>>2796613>westoids be like
>>2796557*blocks your path*
>>2796988>dabs at you >you're too cucked to respondhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea
>>2796557It is not harder. >>2796628You go up a mountain when the weather forecast is good. If you went up a 14er in bad weather, it would suck too.
>>2796988>Mount Washington trail is ~4.5k feet of elevation gain.>Mount Elbert standard route is also about the same.The difference is that the latter's trailhead is 3k feet higher than the summit of the former, and the air is notably thinner.
>>2796557Mt. Washington is far more accessible from the NY/Boston metro areas so it draws a lot more inexperienced day trippers. The weather is also extremely unpredictable and harsh.I saw a few people topside wearing proper crampons, I really hope they didn't come up Lions Head or Huntington because that afternoon the skies cleared and it got super warm. Absolutely menacing avalanche conditions.
>>2796613>You mean the mountain that people can drive to the top of?Not in the winter, you can't.
>>2797017>in bad weatherThat's the thing. Mt Washington is nearly always bad weather.
Looks like you could piss up to top of it. Daily avalanches or something?
>>2796557It just so happens that the jet stream can stick over the area in the winter. It is known as one of if not the most windy place on earth. Couple this with extreme cold and wind and in the winter it is as dangerous as any place on earth. Summer not so much.
>>2796557Weather /thread/
>>2796557>People summit mountains in the Rocky's all the time during winter without issue>without issuewell that's not true. We kill or injure plenty of hikers every winter in Colorado. since most people are hiking up and skiing or boarding down, we usually list them as backcountry skier or boarder deaths. But there's plenty of them.
>>2796988this isnt to scale
>>2796557Weather/thread/
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>>2796613>one of the pictures is of a Lamborghini at the summitFor fucks sake.
>>2798044Apparently the mountains know how to post on 4chan, thats not good.
