GORHAM, N.H. – With a weekend storm dropping more than 30 inches of snow on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington – and hammering the mountain with winds higher than 130 miles an hour – staff at the Mount Washington Observatory, the mountain-top weather station, are in the middle of winter.

With that season comes severe weather, a busy scientific research schedule and a return of the observatory’s “EduTrips,” which allow participants to spend a night at the station, to experience weather that some have called “the world’s worst” and to learn more about the mountain environment.

Observatory Director of Programs Peter Crane said, “It takes a special kind of person to be really enthusiastic about subzero cold, super-hurricane winds and white-out conditions in fog and blinding snow.”

The trips run on many winter weekends, and on some midweek dates, from December into April. Besides including snow tractor transportation up and down the mountain, the trips feature meals and overnight lodging at the observatory.

The observatory is a private, nonprofit, member-supported organization that has kept year-round watch on Mount Washington’s infamous weather since 1932. For details, call 1-800-706-0432, ext. 203. EduTrip and other Observatory information is also available at www.mountwashington.org.

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