PINKHAM NOTCH — A quarter of a century of fundraising and hiking fun — that’s what hikers and supporters are celebrating at the non-profit Mount Washington Observatory’s 25th annual Seek-the-Peak Hike-a-thon wrapping up today.

Alternately revered and feared as the “home of the world’s worst weather,” and first known as Agiocochook, which means “dwelling place of the great spirit” in the Abenaki tongue, and as “the Rockpile” to the stalwarts, Mount Washington at 6,288 feet is the highest peak in the Northeast, second highest east of the Mississippi and a true north for everyone who lives in New Hampshire.

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