Up in the clouds

Yesterday we woke up at the hut and decided to stick around for breakfast and chores in hopes that the clouds would lift. Well by 9 it was the same so we just left and started climbing Mt Washington, the tallest mountain in New England and the only one over 6000 feet. We got to the top and there were big winds and zero visibility. 

There is a visitors center at the top because it is such a popular mountain, which was so weird because all sorts of people could drive up or take a train up and were just sitting at the top of this huge mountain that we just climbed. We heard comments like "Look the actually hiked up here!" The way down was very rocky, wet, and steep. We all took a couple spills, but Matt had a bad one and it broke one of his hiking poles unfortunately.  We had to come over Mt. Madison and were on an exposed ridge when a thunderstorm rolled in. So we booked it as fast as we could over the rock scrambles to try to get below tree line but we didn't exactly make it in time. The rest of the day we got poured on too. 

But luckily we were able to get a bunk and get dry here at Pinkam Notch and today we are going to keep hiking in the rain!