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🗓️ 28 March 2024
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In Episode 342 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike New England’s tallest peak in search of a marker that commemorates where Lizzie Bourne left this mortal coil near the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire back in September of 1855.
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0:00.0 | Ray the weather can change on a dime here on Mount Washington. |
0:07.0 | Well it's home to some of the worst weather on earth they say. |
0:10.1 | And I believe it at 6,288 feet tall. |
0:13.2 | Mount Washington isn't just the tallest mountain in New Hampshire. |
0:16.2 | It's the tallest in all of New England. |
0:18.3 | I've hiked to the top, maybe five or six times over the years. |
0:21.2 | And we've all seen cars with those bumper stickers |
0:23.4 | that read this car climb on Washington. |
0:25.8 | We have. |
0:26.7 | There's a toll road to the top and a cog rail to the top. |
0:30.1 | You can drive up here, take a train, |
0:31.9 | or if you're like us, if you're too dumb to do that, |
0:35.0 | you can hike to the top. |
0:36.0 | We're heading up to the Tuckerman's ravine side of the mountain. |
0:40.0 | It's a long hike too, about 4.2 miles from the parking lot to the top. And the weather up here can get |
0:44.9 | extreme quick too. Now I've hiked this trail in August where the temperatures were in the |
0:49.7 | mid 70s at the base and the mid 30s at the summit and if you don't have the right gear for that |
0:54.5 | and this can be a dangerous place. I can imagine every few years someone makes the news for dying up here |
0:59.7 | so you ready for this yeah there have been at least 161 confirmed deaths on this |
1:05.3 | mountain since they started keeping record back in 1849. Wow 161 I had no idea. |
1:10.8 | Yeah. Okay, our destination is just up there ahead. We've come to Mount |
1:15.9 | Washington to explore the story behind one of those deaths. We're here to find where Lizzy |
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