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Feb 12, 2008, 6:42 PM
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 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Mass.
Posts: 33
| Weather reports If you're going up from the Greater Boston area to the Whites, what resources - reports, sites-are you using to get a grip on the weather. And once you're close to your trailhead, which one(s) for up-to-the-minute info? thanx |
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Feb 20, 2008, 7:36 AM
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  In prior times Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Out in the MA 'burbs near 495.
Posts: 1,889
 | Mt Washington Observatory is the best resource, in my opinion, since they have a forecast specifically for the higher summits and deal directly with mountain, as opposed to valley, weather, as well as always providing a discussion of the weather as well. Obs website They also post a forecast on a recording with telephone number every morning, and that's what I use closer: 1 (603) 356-2137, Press 1 The other resource I use is good old NOAA weather radio. My car receives it, as do my FRS radios. It's not as specific to the mountains but they do report the current conditions on Mt Washington which is an indicator of just how bad it can be.
__________________ Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. - Dave Barry Waterville 12/20, 12/30; Wachusett 12/21, 12/28, 3/9; Jay 1/26-1/27; Bretton Woods 2/2, 2/23-2/24, 3/22; Snowbird 2/10, 2/12, 2/14; Alta 2/11, 2/15; Sunday River 3/1-3/2, 3/8, 3/15, 4/6; Wildcat 3/30 (21 days '07-08 |
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Feb 20, 2008, 7:49 AM
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 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Southeast NH
Posts: 2,683
| As for up to the minute forecasts once you are in the whites 95.3 is the local information station and they update summit and valley weather conditions twice an hour.
__________________ Sunday River: 11/18, 11/24, 4/27 Shawnee Peak: 12/16, 2/24, 2/27, 3/2, 3/22, 3/30 Mt. Abram: 1/5, 2/9 Wildcat: 1/6, 1/27, 2/10, 2/17, 4/13 Black Mountain, NH: 2/23, 3/1 Saddleback, ME: 3.15 Sunapee: 4/19 http://www.aceskiandboardclub.org/ |
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Feb 20, 2008, 2:33 PM
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 Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: CT
Posts: 1,416
| I'll use the MWO & the Weather Channel to get an idea of weather. I'm also carrying a fair amount of gear just in case. I'll have local radio on but by then I have a fair idea what I'm expecting. If I am in the area of Pinkham or Crawford Notch, I'll stop in there too. How much I check also depends on my destination, a trip up Tecumseh or Waumbek isn't the same as a trip in the Northern presidentials
__________________ Happy Trails, be safe & Good Luck Mike P. |
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