Monday morning, April 20, 2026; 6:43-am ....... Mt Washington NH summit weather..... 6262-ft altitude ..... freez'n fog and windy..... 12-degrees, 56-mph wind, -15 wind chill right now, pretty chilly up there for April 20 and the Sherman Adams summit building on the 60.3-acre Mt Washington State Park rocky summit with a rest room, snack bar and mountain museum is closed until a to-be-determined day in May, sometime. And looking at the Mt Wash summit webcam, the large outdoor summit patio has been wind blasted with fresh white new snow where there was no snow the day before.
Not counting the eight Cog Railway passengers who got killed plus the 72-injured when the Cog zoomed down and off the train track trestle about a mile below the summit on Sept 17, 1967, something like 170-hikers, climbers and skiers have died from the cold and wind and snow and ice and medical problems and falls and other reasons on Mt Washington and immediate vicinity since 1849 ......
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...idential_Range ...... with only one suicide in this list out of 178-individual deaths who was a 25 year old woman from Massachusetts on July 21, 1985.
Question of the day: How much for a Mt Washington summit hot dog on a bun with mustard, relish, ketchup, and chopped onions plus a large hot coffee in a paper cup? Whatever it costs which is probably very reasonable, all things considered, if you are an Appalachian Trail hungry thru-hiker then it's definitely worth the price! Will five dollars cover it ....... way up top the highest mountain ..... maybe? ..... except the building is closed today on April 20 until sometime in May.
At a -15 degree wind chill on the summit you better be wearing a wind breaker and warm hat....... ouch-ouch-ouch .......
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Go to
www.weather.gov and enter 'Mt Wash NH' to see today's details and that's where the 6262-ft comes from as opposed to the well known 6288-ft summit selfie sign.
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Tuesday, April 21, 7:30-pm: NH Fish and Game officers find dead body of 61 year old male hiker from West Roxbury, Massachusetts somewhere on the Kinsman Ridge Trail which is also the white blazed Appalachian Trail and about 20 to 22 miles south west from Mount Washington. About 3-5 inches of wet, slushy snow fell there on Sunday night into Monday. Apparently he was hiking alone by himself? More info later like did he freeze to death or what?
http://www.nhfishgame.com/2026/04/22...ed-in-lincoln/ and as already mentioned, on Monday April 20 at 6:43-am the National Weather Service reported the Mount Washington summit weather station had freez'n fog and windy ..... 12 degrees, 56-mph wind, -15 wind chill ....... ouch! ..... that's cold especially if you got wet shoes, socks and feet and are all alone, suffering with the very windy cold.
And, the Kinsman Ridge Trail on the Appalachian Trail is a super steep, very wet, very rocky trail with difficult water crossings right now from the melting snow pack and rain so it seems possible or likely this guy was soaking wet and very cold.
Kent Wood, 61, West Roxbury, MA .....
http://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...-kents-passing