Ash has been wanting to head up Mt. Washington for a while, and after being rejected by a massive storm this winter, it was on the To-Do list for the summer. One of the unique things about the White Mountains is the AMC's hut system -- a series of mountain huts providing lodging, food, and education for hikers, especially important in the alpine vegetation found on many peaks in the Whites.
So to get the 'hut experience' at least once, we booked a night at the Lakes of the Clouds hut near the summit of Mt. Washington and headed over to celebrate the 4th of July in the Presidential Range - kind of fitting.
Washington however is notorious for bad weather, and despite a sunny forecast, it snowed on the summit the night before our hike and didn't look any better when we hit the trail. We hiked up the Crawford Path, the 'oldest continually-used mountain trail in America', which also overlaps the Appalachian Trail.
Despite being socked in the clouds all day on a windy ridgeline, it was still a great hike and we got to the hut early afternoon. Luckily the crowds had stayed away, and we settled in for a relatively quiet evening at the hut.
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