Mt. Washington ✨AT Day 101

[@Cindyscrossstitch]

Is anyone else so happy she has others with her at the end of the hike👣🌻

[@ohiobluebell]

SO nice to see her spirits up!

[@RC-qf3mp]

It’s double edged. She needs to rest her knee. Not compression straps or astrological advice, but rest. Like countless other people who feels the need to hike with a group, she’s going to aggravate her injure just to keep up instead of listening to her body which shouting for her to stop. It’s not a medical mystery. Her keeping up with them is putting her at risk of permanent knee damage.

[@carolpeyton1579]

Yes!!

[@TheJhtlag]

Sure, I mean, we're invested in her and it's great to see her smiling and doing well and that can be partly attributed to a couple guys to talk to and looking out for her.

[@jeannenimmo5]

@S. M. Yes, we are social animals.

[@karlhenderson2267]

Wow! Summiting Mt. Washington (not by vehicle of course) is quite an impressive feat. Summiting in the context of a thru-hike at mile 1865.3 in the 101st day of hiking is nothing short of miraculous! So happy for the clear views at the summit, a cathartic moment for sure given what you’ve been through the previous couple of days in the Whites. Hoping for similar views at the top of Katahdin🎉!

[@sarahcaissieprovost6344]

I climbed Washington (via Tuck’s Ravine) on what might have been the most beautiful day ever. 70 degrees at the summit, crystal clear! It was magic.

[@stevematosky1086]

Lake in the Clouds hut closed wow, amazing hiking with snow and everything!

[@janetbronner6403]

Beautiful view from the top of the mountain! I am glad you made it! I don't know where you are at this point, but I hope you are not trapped in the smoke from the wildfires in Canada. Hope you made it out safely.

[@vickifg13]

That’s a lot of snow ⛄️ to be hiking in. You had snow at the beginning of your hike and snow at the end of your hike. Stay safe and Happy Hiking ⛺️🥾💞

[@lyndajefferson5929]

The views were outstanding, so happy for you Stella on making it to mount Washington. Now on to Katahadin. How amazing is that.. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@stevematosky1086]

Mt. Washington well deserved milestone!

[@luckyotter623]

Stella, I'm so proud of you! You hiked so fast you hiked right back into winter! J/k! Seriously, the terrain on Mt. Washington looks way different than anything else I've seen on the AT -- that far north you are well above the tree line. I don't think I've ever seen you look this exhilarated - and you have every reason to be. Good job!

[@gaylewalker4239]

Wow. Awesome sectiona and a great time. Keep trekking. 😀

[@roadhousepress]

What makes me happy is to be in the whites through her videos. Selfie videos bore me but when a hiker is into the hike and what’s in their field of vision it draws me into the experience. Regardless of who travels with who.. it’s the trail that intrigues.

[@TheJhtlag]

That shot of her walking along the ridge 10:45 was pretty nice for a couple of reasons, just seeing the action of her hiking the ridge, the luxury of watching a longer cut, and seeing it done wordlessly. I'm giving the guy credit here. She has a moment where she says "What beautiful views" then immediately get a discussion and view of her compression sock.

[@jonleach2653]

Awesome video! I've been waiting to hear you say WOW! AMAZING!

[@TheJhtlag]

I wasn't picking up on the guys teasing her

[@larrypeake7632]

Wow, some of the best views of the A.T.!!!!

[@susanboatman7913]

Congratulations on reaching the summit of Mt Washington.

[@lisa_eeyore]

What a fun day! It was cute when you were dancing downhill through the snow and then you slid just as you made it to the bottom! What an amazing climb! You're awesome Stella! :)

[@TheJhtlag]

I agree with the guy though, lower your guard for a second is when it happens.

[@lenamartinez7999]

Stella, you know it makes my 💜 happy and at rest to know that you are not alone. You have good 👍 company with you ☺️.

[@wandering_butnotlost]

Im so happy your spirit seems to be back in the right place! The company, the views, love this for you

[@maureenmukhlis2934]

I am speechless!!! Just magnificent!!! That place is unreal😍😍😍 I’m so excited for you and the guys!! It looks like you’re having a BLAST!!! I pray you all are ok and not having respiratory issues from that horrible smoke🥲🥲🥲

[@melonydodson8725]

This is the best footage I've seen of the Whites! Thank you so much! It's so helpful to see what to expect. Now I'm even more terrified, lol! 😂I'm so surprised there's still so much snow on the trail! What month was this? I'm so glad you have a tramily for this section. I hope the knee braces help!

[@1024Pete]

Cheers to the climb! Bravo to your mountainous achievement👏🏻 Including the difficult descent. Thanks for the views and for your stupendous effort. Be well. Be safe. Wishing you peace and fair weather ahead. Happy Trails!

[@jamesquinlivan7876]

Now there’s the Stella we all know and love. Beautiful video! Thanks for sharing with us. Take care be safe and enjoy the ‘Holyland’, Mother Earth 👍👊👏🙌🥾❤️

[@jimhenderson387]

It just blows my mind when you look back to Mt. Washington and you realize how far you've gone. I really can't imagine how you do it!

[@frolege1]

Glad you got good weather up on Washington

[@mardeclardy2961]

Great video! I hope that was mountain enough for you. So awesome you hiked all the way there and there are the others...that choose cog or car. Well done!! Thanks for the views.😊

[@itchingtogo7362]

So enjoyed this video. Remembered my trip up Mt. Washington couple of years ago and chatting with so many thru hikers.

[@frolege1]

Drove up to Mt Washington last August and it was one crazy drive … rain, low clouds and super windy

[@katfish000]

Fantastic trail with views 🎉

[@michymoo839]

Wow…just amazing views!

[@noniemcd]

We have driven to Mt. Washington three times. Each time it was scary high, cold and windy. You are climbing it. Wow! Impressive! I’ve enjoyed coming along on your trek. Thank you.

[@TheJhtlag]

There's a bike(cycle) climb/race in the fall too ;^)

[@cjengland2365]

Great views. Thanks for posting.

[@cynthiasmith4966]

Been to the top of Mt. Washington by cog train and car. COLD up there! Congratulations!

[@catblue6393]

Beautiful! 🚶🏽‍♀️👍🏻🙂

[@black_dog_barks]

Best hiking trails in the world.... NH.

[@rebecca1995]

Congratulations 🎉😊 fantastic hike

[@ffstopP]

Another wonderful vlog. You're doing great. I'm lovin' the trek. Walk on.

[@joankline343]

Congratulations to you all 🎉 for not crashing and burning on your climb 😅 Just a little Breezy up there. 😮 Thanks to you all for sharing your exciting adventures with us all! ❤ ;) I figured you'd run into all that wildfire smoke being that high. I was sharing your videos with my grandchildren and now they wanna go hiking at 7 and 8. ;) Happy hiking to you all. Be careful stay safe and enjoy your Hike. 🙏

[@lois6705]

I suspect these videos are some days behind the fire smoke.

[@sanman8359]

@@lois6705 She must be close - air quality is fine in Maine…and it is unseasonably cool which means fewer bugs….looks like she timed this one perfectly.

[@TheJhtlag]

Just looking at the wind patterns it's quite possible that the winds in Maine are blowing west along with the smoke in Canada so that the Maine may never get that smoke. the smoke will go on a circular pattern down into the US and back out east in the middle Atlantic states, basically a big circle due to a cyclonic pattern. We had a pretty hazy day in Maryland today. There's a cool website but can't post it because YT will delete my post. Windy of course is in the name, figure out the rest! ;^)

[@lois6705]

@@TheJhtlag The videos are two weeks behind.

[@TheJhtlag]

@@lois6705I'm suggesting Maine may not get the smoke at all regardless of timing, 'course winds change. I can't post the website, YT seems to delete my post but pretty enteresting site that show wind flows. US looks like it has a mass of stagnant air over it right now, Also shows air quality in places.

[@erikgiggey4783]

glad you got past washington before the snow. i know lake of the clouds got 5 inches.

[@jjg5812]

toujours le sourire et toujours la classe stella !!!! always smiling and always classy stella !!!

[@RickINFJ]

There are too many great moments Nyx, the entire video was from the heavens. Your spirit was soaring! 2:51

[@Amilliondreams87]

This has got to be one of the most gorgeous sections of trail I've seen! 🥰 I can't help feeling like road accesses to the top of it kinda take away that juice from the squeeze feeling for me a bit.

[@MaxZomboni]

Well on the positive side, you didn't have to wait in a long line at the summit to take your selfie. The benefits of being up there when it's cloudy. 😎👍

[@mjperkolator8854]

Pretty sure Mt Washington has some of the coldest windiest weather on earth. Record breaking. Good job!

[@RickINFJ]

It set 2 US records this February. Coldest air temp -47.2 and coldest wind chill -108.4 😮

[@susie-q96]

Good day! Happy hiking! 🥾

[@stevecarney6750]

Jill and I were on top Mt. Washington last May it was really cold but fantastic view. We took the cog train. That is easier on us old people You are doing great 😊.

[@Lovesracing19]

Wonderful views. Be careful. Safe travels.

[@patriciabarnhart1886]

Way different experience when one can enjoy most any moment shared with others. Oh to be young again👏👏👏

[@TheJhtlag]

Aye, oh to be young again.

[@RobertSmith-km6gi]

There ain’t nothing like that in the southern part of the trail! And you have the Wildcats to look forward to!

[@TheJhtlag]

Meh. And there ain't nothing like the heath plants blooming in the south last month or so. I really hate comments like this.

[@thomasconnors7511]

Being a NH hiker mostly. It to me the most beautiful hike. The negative is it gets so busy.

[@williamking2249]

I always thought when walking up on the cairns that its pretty cool.And happy for you that it wasn't bad weather. 👍🌲

[@debsmith7050]

Wow! Hope your knees continue to hold out !! You are doing great

[@johnmossawir3314]

Love Mt Washington. Brutal climb to get to the top - whereupon - you see …. A PARKING LOT.

[@sanman8359]

I know….:-)

[@TheJhtlag]

Oh, I dunno. There was another through-hiker who suggested tourists shouldn't be allowed up there presumably because they worked for it and the tourists did not. And I'm thinking about some guy who got out of the service carrying a pack he wasn't crazy about, worked at the plant his whole life, has some infirmities and would like to stand on top of a mountain just once. So yeah, there's one mountain that's set aside for that, Mt Washington which already has other concrete stuff going on, eg weather observatory etc. Through-hikers have Katahdin, Franconia Ridge etc. etc. etc. Most of the AT isn't really that wild and oh yeah, AT hikers are "tourists" too, just a very specialized experience tourist.

[@TheJhtlag]

@S. M. Not trying to pick on John, I just see this a lot, even on this same page. heck, I'll take the cog railroad just for grins and giggles hoping some through-hiker moons us so I can shake my fist at him or her.

[@kellyfromiowa1849]

So good you have others to hike with getting through the White's. That is no place to have an injury while alone. Hopefully once you get out of the mountains you can take some time and rest those knees. I often wonder how you do those climbs and decents while holding a camera. Be careful out there!!

[@Judy-fi7ce]

Challenging on the steep snowy crossing and then rocky descent, but you did it all! Nice campfire at the end. You're so close now! Take care.

[@TheJhtlag]

I saw that and freaked out, like those guys on Everest you have to set each step.

[@alanwbelcher]

My favorite part of your entire trek! The Presidentials are a magical place, I’m glad you got a relatively nice day up there. The big intersection at 9:41 is called Thunderstorm Jct, an ominous name. I’d hate to be caught there in one! Put some anti chafing cream on the back of your knees.

[@wendygrw]

Congratulations for completing the climb to Mt. Washington and the steep descent. Beautiful views from up there on that ridge!

[@MichaelPower212]

1854.9* - Total miles from Amicalola Falls. 85.3% - Accomplished. 319.9 - Miles remaining to Katahdin (2,170). 11.4 - Miles this day from Mizpah Spring Hut (1838.7) to Osgood Campsite (1850.1) 18.4 - Average miles per day for the 2nd day in a row. 20.2 - Average miles per day less the 8 zero days. 17 - Estimated days remaining to Katahdin. * All mileage is from the NPS/ATC online map.

[@kozmiczian]

What an unbelievable trek. So well documented, Summit of Mt. Washington! Congrats.

[@RC-qf3mp]

You should keep track of more vital statistics, like how many veggie burgers she’s eaten and number of sighs per video. Maybe AI can do this for us. And number of times she’s laughed, or cried.

[@sanman8359]

@@RC-qf3mp Maybe Michael is AI….😎

[@RC-qf3mp]

@@sanman8359 everyone you’ve ever met in your life is AI. You’re on the Truman Show.

[@sanman8359]

@@RC-qf3mp 😎

[@judytombaugh2990]

You DID it - great job ! On to the end now ❤

[@justsmitty1709]

Congratulations 👍 on Mt Washington, on to mother K.

[@tkemp4184]

There are live web cameras on Mt. Washington......fun to take a look in the dead of winter....

[@TheAlexa1983]

Gorgeous!

[@johnchantrill434]

Congratulations on your success to this destination. You now have to pace yourself and be careful. Stay strong and hydrate.

[@jeannenimmo5]

Such great memories are stirring in my psyche: The USGS marker at the summit of Mt. Washington reads, 6,288.176' above sea level. Thunderstorm Junction, Madison Hut, the seemingly unending and unrelenting downhill slog from the summit of Mt. Madison(the Osgood Trail). Soon after the Osgood Tent Site there is the Auto Road and Pinkham Notch Visitor Center(AMC), then up and over the Wildcats, the Carters and Mt. Moriah, before entering Maine and the Mahoosucs. How I wish I could still do those things, once again. Be well, stay safe. Many are with you...

[@mikenike610]

What an epic day you had!

[@doconawalk9367]

Great views along the Presidential traverse! I still feel the descent off Mt Madison in my knees!!!

[@katfish000]

Yes Cindy. 😊

[@johnbgriffinjr116]

Gooood morning! 😊

[@bushwhackingfool3706]

I drove up Mt Washington last August on the way home from Acadia National Park. It was nice to see it from a hikers perspective, as I thought about what it would be like to hike up it.

[@toejamr1]

The path and mountains before and after Washington were more memorable to me. Too many people up there on Washington staring at you like a freak with all your dirty gear on with the same question.. “where did you hike from?..” ”Georgia” “WHAT?!..” “yeah 1700ish miles so far” “SO FAR?!.. where are you trying to get to?” “Middle of Maine” “what possessed you to want to do that?” “I needed a change” “that’s just crazy..good luck..I can’t even walk up the steps here without getting winded..”

[@sanman8359]

Agiocochook! Congrats…..great views. Hope you got your favorite hot soup at the restaurant. We are planning to summit this weekend via the Ammonoosuc ravine trail and take the cog down. So we will be on the AT for about 1.3 miles at the top………:-). It feels so tiny compared to what you are doing!

[@daj4777]

Wow what a day, wish I was there

[@kamini1674]

Great job, keep it up. i see one of tht fellows has a Tarptent Notch. How do they like it?

[@davidmoran1422]

Keep smiling.

[@toejamr1]

4:49 Lake of the Clouds!

[@walterpaton8698]

There should be a hiker crossing bridge, something. When crossing the Cog railway tracks.

[@captainrobbins7130]

Bonus miles!!

[@chuckhines459]

The Presidential range is beautiful. ✌

[@walterweinstein1612]

Hey there Stella ........ June 10 and you must be deep into that Maine 100-mile wilderness on what must be a totally, totally COLD, wet, rainy and miserable WEEK of hiking ......... good luck with all that ...... and good-grief! Are you familiar with the 'Name Game Song' ..... which works better with some names than with others ...... for example, take your name, STELLA, and it goes like this ........ Stella, Stella, bo-bella, banana bana bo bella, fee-fi-fo mella ...... it's Stella!

[@MrMorton]

So Child of the Mountains, I think I remember you saying before you started the Appalachian Trail that you weren't sure about the experience because you love mountain so much. This may not be the high Sierras, but is this mountain enough for you?😂

[@MrsJoyism]

Where was that steep snow field you descended?

[@rebeccamccormack5012]

A well deserved rest that night!! 🎉😅

[@deborahchadwick210]

Climb and climb..to a concrete covered summit.

[@sanman8359]

Looks like Katahdin is only 50 miles from the Canadian border….worth a shot? Maybe start a trend?

[@sanman8359]

@S. M. IAT - its got a good ring to it…..:-)

[@kozmiczian]

The terrain from Washinton to Adams . . . 😂. . . 🤓

[@PedroNord]

🦋

[@anneoconnor3614]

Isn’t NH magnificent !!! But please more views of the world around you - moving your phone slowly -- we have already seen a lot of your beautiful face 😉

[@popeyehikestheappalachiant2699]

Did y'all moon the Cog?

[@robertdesrosiers4743]

bon jour home yea thanks stella cog railway cool

[@adamnichols3506]

That valley is actually the Great Gulf

[@robinfinehout1160]

FUN video! Did you cowboy?

[@mountainman969n.e.c.5]

Awesome Stella, Mt Washington and the Pesidentials are my favorite spots in the whites to hike. I am glad you enjoyed it. Here is a video from my funest time on the rock pile kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKW3iouMiceEm7M I sledded down from the top.

[@lawrencejump7391]

Not really, what are we going to do now? Just saying! Going to miss this.

[@sanman8359]

True!