Decided to try out Mt. Washington and was not disappointed in any way! Wish I had tried it sooner. We parked in the Olallie State Park parking lot and took the trail from there. Once you walk up a steep trail you will meet an old logging road, take a right and walk the flat road for about 2 minutes, look for a white wooden post on the left that has numbers and letters on it about 100 feet after that is the trailhead, if you do not know this it would be impossible to find the trailhead. You will get amazing diverse views the entire time up the mountain. There are beautiful rock walls, streams, and look out points throughout. I would advise to use poles and have microspikes on your boots, it was VERY icy. I slipped pretty bad twice even with my poles and spikes on. About halfway up the trail was pretty covered in snow but was packed down enough so it was do-able. However we did not make it to the top because we lost the trail about 3/4 of the way up. Still was a great hike and we enjoyed the parts we did hike.
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