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Worst Weather in the World

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I flew up to Maine to see my sister and cousins for a few days. As part of the trip we went up Mount Washington in NH. We went up on the Cogged Railway. It's A unique old vehicle system that only uses a large cog underneath the engine hooked into a ladder type of rack on the tracks all the way to the top. The modern engine uses a 600HP John Deere driving a hydraulic pump which in turn drives several hydraulic motors turning the large cog. Mt Washington is known for the extreme cold and highest wind in the world. Yes, the world. That was not the case when we went up. The winds were 3 MPH and the temp was 62 degrees. the highest ever temp ever recorded was 72 degrees and a 3 MPH wind is generally unheard of. So, the weather was quite kind for us.
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I finally got the blog working again. Not sure what happened exactly, but I had to work through all the DNS settings again. Here are some pics from iceland not taken with the drone. It is a very cool place. Almost every scene around every hill is something different as if it was part of a simulated experience and the creators aren't finished yet. At points it felt very post-apocalyptic. The rugged black-crunchy terrain, being in dense clouds after being in lonely expanses and the smell of sulfur was quite different from the everyday stuff.
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