This Thursday morning, I took a stroll up the east side of Mount Washington. A period of high winds was starting to diminish. A peak gust on the summit the day before was 133 mph and Thursday morning it was 112 mph.
Because of the high winds, instead of going up to Lunch Rocks at the base of the Tuckerman Ravine headwall, I decided to turn off the Tuckerman Ravine Trail at 1.7 miles and take the Huntington Ravine Fire Road.
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