PINKHAM NOTCH â In two separate incidents, four people climbing Mount Washingtonâs Huntington Ravine last Saturday were caught in high winds and blowing whiteout conditions, according to Frank Carus, lead snow ranger and director of the U.S. Forest Serviceâs Mount Washington Avalanche Center.
Both incidents had good endings, Carus said, but he cautioned climbers to be aware of hazardous conditions.
âTypical ground conditions in events like these make it hard or impossible to see from one trail-marking cairn to the next. Combined with drifting snow on the ground, normal navigational cues such as rock cairns, turnpiking and crampon scratched ice and rock are lost,â Carus noted.