WE MADE IT. After a very challenging climb down three stairs, we made it to the summit, asked the guy manning the visitor's station a question, but he was super rude so being the intrepid explorers we are, we made our own way through the fog to the actual summit. And dear lord. There was a line to the actual summit, and it wasn't super long but there was this family of about 10 people who mistook the summit for an America's next top model photoshoot, and one woman was screaming instructions at the other people (OPEN UR EYES. MOVE UR HIP UP ONE INCH AND TO THE LEFT) and ate up way too much time while the rest of us fought the urge to hurl them off the mountaintop in a sacrifice to whatever gods might be listening. We were surrounded by misty clouds, and it was cold (who knew) and maybe the flip flops we were wearing were a mistake (a pre-teen lectured me about this for about 5 minutes as we climbed down the rocky slope. THANKS MOM. I GET IT.) but it was most excellent, and I'm so glad we didn't have to hike down. Mt. Washington is on the Appalachian trail, and there's about 300 miles from Mt. Washington to the end of the trail, and we saw some pretty exhausted but excited hikers.
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