Thunder Storms At Altitude
July 19, 2010 1:43 am Leave your thoughts
Location: Carter Mountains, Presidential’s Range, White Mountains, New Hampshire
Brookie and I camped together last night as the girls pressed on to one of the Appalachian Mountain Club huts further on.
We were camped across from Mt. Washington in the Carter Mountains range. We were camped somewhere close to 4000 feet. The Presi’s as Brookie likes to call them are the tallest range on the east coast with Mt. Washington topping out at 6,288 feet.
At that altitude they have their own crazy and erratic weather systems.
We went to bed around 9 and though it was very windy the skies were pretty clear. Around 2 hours later I awoke to what sounded like the loudest thunder I had heard in my entire life. I ran out to move my pack under my hammock and throw my rain poncho over my hammock rain fly for extra protection. The skies lit with lightening bright as day.
We were pretty well below tree line so we were relatively safe. I wish I was able to get some pictures though, it was incredible!!! (picture above clouds coming off Mt. Washington next morning)