This Thursday was cold and windy. On Mount Washington the wind was 78.2 mph with a maximum wind of 110 mph. The average temperature was minus 13 Fahrenheit. Open areas in the valley got blasted.
I needed to do something to write about, and decided to just drive from my place in Tamworth Village out the Chinook Trail or Route 113A to Wonalancet and climb up the gentle Mount Katherine (1,380 feet).
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