The first summit day of the season has that “new chapter” feeling. Wind doesn’t ask permission. Visibility comes and goes like a curtain. Every photo looks staged by the weather.
The mountain that doesn’t care
Mount Washington
Weather, lore, first ascents, and the pull of the summit. This site is a living notebook: part history cabinet, part field journal, part tribute to the kind of imagination that makes people try strange things on big mountains.
Inspired by the spirit of Alton Weagle — but centered on Mount Washington itself.
Start here
- Postcards: the mountain in fragments
- Weagle Day: first ascents + joy
- Sources: what’s documented vs lore
Everything here is meant to be readable, not precious.
Alton Weagle Day in — days
Explore
The main pages are built to be evergreen. The event page changes year to year.
Postcards from the Summit
Historic summit postcards + modern micro-postcards. A living archive of short, dated mountain moments.
Go to Postcards →
Alton Weagle Day
The annual celebration of first ascents, costumes, and creative endurance — with a countdown and galleries.
Go to Weagle Day →
Alton Weagle
What’s known, what’s repeated, and why the story matters even when the details get hazy.
Go to Alton Weagle →
Sources & Receipts
The books, articles, recordings, and archives that feed the site — and a clear line between documentation and lore.
Go to Sources →
Mountain Recipes
Practical celebration food, including Blueapple Pie and Blueapple Muffins (vegan-friendly).
Go to Recipes →
First Ascents & Lore
A home for the odd ideas, small records, and personal “firsts” that make the mountain feel alive.
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First ascents & lore
Mount Washington attracts a certain kind of mind: people who see a mountain and immediately start inventing new ways to meet it. Some of those ideas are silly. Some are beautiful. Some are both at once.
This site keeps space for that: little challenges, oddball traditions, and the stories that gather around a place where the weather can erase your plans in minutes.
A simple rule
Keep it honest. If something is fully documented, say so. If it’s lore, label it as lore. The mountain is dramatic enough without exaggeration.
That’s why the Sources page exists.
Latest postcards
Three recent entries. The full archive lives on the Postcards page.
Recent
The summit is a sculpture garden made of ice. Everything looks like it was dipped in white flame. The wind edits your thoughts down to one line: keep moving.
Packed track, cold light, and that quiet moment where the mountain feels like it’s listening back. Fingers go numb fast. You learn what matters.
What this site is
A Mount Washington site built for people who return again and again: by trail, by Auto Road, by Cog, in summer, in rime, and in the in-between seasons when the mountain looks calm but isn’t.
It’s also a place to keep the good stories — including Alton Weagle’s — in a way that respects sources and doesn’t pretend certainty where there isn’t any.
Future additions
- A “First Ascents Registry” (curated submissions)
- A gallery index with year-by-year links
- A community forum (Discourse) for postcards + trip reports
- Artifact entries for historic postcards (front/back scans + transcription)