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Overnight Open Thread (11/03/2025)

Mount Washington is a cute little peak in comparison to the real mountains of the American West. But because of its peculiar location right smack in the middle of some very common storm tracks, it makes the weather on the mountain very, very strange. The surrounding lower mountains funnel those systems right into Mount Washington, so things like 100mph wind, and snow in August can happen. The earliest snowfall on record is on July 1st. And the latest snowfall on record is on June 30th.

See the pattern?

Couple that with the profoundly stupid population of the Northeast, and we get things like this! In their defense, it is entirely possible to enjoy a glorious warm fall day at the base of the mountain, while it is sleeting and blowing 50mph halfway up!

Of course, this has been known about Mount Washington since it was first climbed in 1642, so maybe it's just Darwin at work! Anybody who climbs any of these peaks without proper preparation is simply stupid. I climbed Mount Lafayette, about 30 miles away and 1,000 feet shorter, a long time ago, and a partly cloudy day at the base gave way to sleet, fog, 40mph winds, and lots of ice on the trail. On the other hand, steak and beer at The Outing Club lodge that night, so it all worked out!

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Go to your rooms...all of you. To say that I am bitterly disappointed in every one of you is an understatement. Not a single one of you made the connection between the top picture and the song behind it in the ONT from two weeks ago.

Do better.

Be better.

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Those stupid, virtue-signaling lawn signs that proclaim how absolutely wonderful the occupants are make me want to drive over their lawns and do 360s. There is so much hypocrisy built into them that I guess the appropriate response is to laugh and point, but I still bristle when I see them.

But... how about this one?

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Fashion Week!
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• Hoddypeak
  
• Hiraeth
  
• Apricity
  
• Gobemouche
  
• Brabble
  
• Perendinate

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