the cog railroad atop of mt.washington, NH. home of the highest wind speed recorded on earth...231 mph. some of the nastiest weather you'll ever encounter happens here.

Whoa . . .

Hey!

I can see my house!

OK, not really.

Free 5'er (by CBID count) to the first person to make me really believe you REMEMBER (not just googled him) who Marty Ingstrom is (was?)

^Wasn't he the dude in Young Frankenstein, with the messed up eyes???

^

Had to look him up, leaves me out of the contest, but he seems like quite the character.

-JT

I'm not sure if I got the right guy our not but my Grandfather grew up in New Hampshire & used to repair Television sets when they had tubes in them and he met Marty Ingstrom. Like I said I'm not sure if I got that right guy or not, but I remember my Grandfather talking the famous guy he once knew. I only wish my family would have stayed there and bought a ton of land back then.

I might not get back to this until Monday.

So far, I'm not convinced anyone here has ever seen Marty.

Anyone that was in northern NH/western Maine in the 70s/80s may have.

I miss New England

Very nice

What was on top of the mountain, that they had to bring down?

There's a permanent weather/research/transmitting station.

Plus parks service tourist trappy kinda thing, except its not tourist trappy, if that makes sense.

Auto-road, Cog railway (most expensive train ticket per foot?) plus several hiking trails go to the top.

6,255 feet elevation or something like that.

Highest point in the northeast.

I just heard the train now runs on bio-deisel.

So it smells like fries instead of smog.

Bears must be happy about that.

It's funny as hell to see flatlanders go up there about this time of year in shorts. It can be 70 and calm at the bottom, while it's 45 degrees w/ 30 mph winds at the top. You just paid $65 each to take the train up, and you really want to just get back on the train and get down! Those suckers make a be-line for their cars and the heaters.

And then you have the idiots who hike up to ski Tuckerman's Ravine in March.

Darwin takes his toll about once every 5-10 years.

It's been a tourist attraction since the "robber baron" days, hence the train to the top.

Called "Cog" railway because the driving wheels are actually gears instead of wheels.

I was hoping this was going to be a pic of a really hot chick eating a corn dog in one bite. With no hands.

ScottHar

6200 feet is all?

You easterners need more volcanos...

Sorry thought this was something else,HeHe!!

I used to snowboard Tuckermans several times a year. I did Huntington's as well, but there is alot of rock. Avoid the avalanches.

Skiing Tuckermans was a dream come true.

The headwall was unfortunately not skiable when I climbed, but the left gulley was some of the best skiing I've ever encountered.

The most fun was sitting on the lunch rock watching the dare devils on the tobogan. That's just plain crazy.