>>2796557
>Mount Washington
You mean the mountain that people can drive to the top of? The mountain that they sell bumper stickers for, for driving to the summit?
https://mt-washington.com/bumper-sticker/

>>2796557
>People summit mountains in the Rocky's all the time during winter without issue and they go to 15000ft.
First of all, no they don't. Second of all, only the deranged and the addicted attempt technical and otherwise difficult summits during winter. There are different trails for different times of the year and winter trails are designed to avoid as much of the nasty stuff as "climbing a mountain in the middle of winter" brings to mind even if it adds 5+ miles compared to the summer route. Thirdly, the vast majority of the peaks that get climbed in winter are the "easy" ones.

>Mt. Washington
I don't know shit about Mt. Washington but I'd be willing to bet $100 that the main reason it kills so many people is those same people thinking "what difference does a little snow make?" because that happens everywhere there are mountains.

t. colorado pro

>>2796613
Yeah, just like Pike's Peak.

>>2796557
Canada shits on it and the topography is flat and gay and wide open and so the storms just go buckwild

absolutely nothing to do with technical ascent

>>2796557
The weather is just super killer in the mt washington area. It's not that technical but the wind gets so bad you'd have to be really hardened or a masochist to summit. In comparison, when I went to do an attempt on mt of the holy cross in the colorado rocky area in january, I spent 4 days out with perfect weather conditions the entire time. It sounds like washington just doesn't get many calm days in winter

wind chill -109

>>2796613
OH GAWD IM SEEEETHIN

weather .
scotlands highest peak is only 4000ft yet dozens of people die in scotlands hills each year, often experienced mountaineers/hikers. the reason is the volatile weather. plus the modest altitudes lure people into a false sense of safety.

>it's only a 3500ft peak, what could go wrong?
>it's 30f at trailhead, cant be much different up there..
>it looks perfectly clear from down here

then you get up above 3000ft and find yourself in a whiteout with -10F windchill. and this kind of weather comes out of nowhere in places like the scottish highlands or Mt Washington.

>>2796613
Oh no no no!!!!

>>2796557
>>2796628
This. It can be a pleasant day in the 40s in the rest of NH but you head to Mt. Washington and it's like you've stepped into the Yukon.

>>2796637
I have much respect for scottish winter climbing and also the general climbing etiquette that the uk harbors. honestly one of my lifetime goals is to at least follow a mixed route or gully at the ben

>>2796557
*blocks your path*

>>2796988
>dabs at you
>you're too cucked to respond
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea

>>2796557
It is not harder.

>>2796628
You go up a mountain when the weather forecast is good. If you went up a 14er in bad weather, it would suck too.

>>2796988
>Mount Washington trail is ~4.5k feet of elevation gain.
>Mount Elbert standard route is also about the same.
The difference is that the latter's trailhead is 3k feet higher than the summit of the former, and the air is notably thinner.

>>2796557
Mt. Washington is far more accessible from the NY/Boston metro areas so it draws a lot more inexperienced day trippers. The weather is also extremely unpredictable and harsh.

I saw a few people topside wearing proper crampons, I really hope they didn't come up Lions Head or Huntington because that afternoon the skies cleared and it got super warm. Absolutely menacing avalanche conditions.

>>2796613
>You mean the mountain that people can drive to the top of?
Not in the winter, you can't.

>>2797017
>in bad weather
That's the thing. Mt Washington is nearly always bad weather.

Looks like you could piss up to top of it. Daily avalanches or something?

>>2796557
It just so happens that the jet stream can stick over the area in the winter. It is known as one of if not the most windy place on earth. Couple this with extreme cold and wind and in the winter it is as dangerous as any place on earth. Summer not so much.

>>2796557
Weather
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>>2796557
>People summit mountains in the Rocky's all the time during winter without issue
>without issue
well that's not true. We kill or injure plenty of hikers every winter in Colorado.

since most people are hiking up and skiing or boarding down, we usually list them as backcountry skier or boarder deaths. But there's plenty of them.

>>2796988
this isnt to scale

>>2796557
Weather
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>>2796613
>one of the pictures is of a Lamborghini at the summit
For fucks sake.

>>2798044
Apparently the mountains know how to post on 4chan, thats not good.

>>2796613
How do you respond without sounding mad?

people post photos of mt washington here with little anime figurines but I have never ever seen an anon post a winter ascent of any eastern hill here
that just doesn't get talked about, there's a sliver of new england discussion, but anything further south is just never talked about outside of the applachian trail itself

>>2801678
That's because they drive to the top and take a picture. Nobody on here is going to make a winter ascent. Anons don't even go outside in the summer, what makes you think they'll do it in the winter?

>>2801680
no, no, in winter, when nobody can drive to the top, people ascend mt washington here in the winter with their anime shit, you can do with with crampons and an ice axe

i try to go outside all year, but admittedly I don't do as much between late december until march

my point is anons don't post ascents of any eastern mountains at all in winter, there's maybe a little more in summer, sporadically

>>2801682
I don't see people posting pictures of western mountain ascents either. It's almost like mountaineering takes a lot more effort and gear to not die.

>>2798033
Yes it is, they're just really far away.