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 This week we are back from vacation and joined by our friends at the Mt. Washington Auto Road, Tobey Reichart the Auto Road General Manager and Meghan Moody Scwartz, the Auto Road Marketing and Events Director were kind enough to sit down with us this week to talk about all things Mt. Washington Auto Road.  Enjoy the discussion about America’s Oldest Man Made Attraction where we will cover the history of the Auto Road, the operations behind maintaining the road, all  the various events and activities available and  we will learn about Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center and the Glen House Hotel. All this plus vacation recap, Stomp has been on a hiking kick with trips out to the Osceola, Tripyramids and Tecumseh over the break and some recent search and rescue news

 This weeks Higher Summit Forecast

Welcome back to our sponsor - Fieldstone Kombucha

 

About Our Guests

• Mt. Washington Auto Road

• Mt. Washington Snowcoach tour

• Mt. Washington Auto Road Events 

• The Glen House Hotel at Mt. Washington

• Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center

Topics

• Happy New Year, Vacation recap and 1st Day Hikes

• Apple Watch for hiking 

• Shout outs to @trailsignlove on IG, A Dad Joke and plug for New England Healing Sports Association

• Mt. Washington Road Race Registration is opening soon

• Listener Letter - injury on trail 

• Hiking Drama - when to drop your backpack / slackpack

• Pop Culture - Cameo? Walter and Gus

• Coffee Donations, Notable Hikes, Beer Talk and Stomp hikes Osceolas, Tripyramid and Tecumseh over the holidays

• Guests of the Week - Tobey and Meghan from the Mt. Washington Auto Road (57:00 Min)

• Recent Search and Rescue news

 

Show Notes

• Apple Podcast link for 5 star reviews

• SLASR Merchandise

• SLASR LinkTree

• 1st Day hikes happen in Ma and across the nation. 

• 5 important Apple Watch features for the avid hiker

• Samsung android watches

• @trailsignlove

• New England Healing Sports Association

• Donation / team page

• Mt. Washington Road Race registration is coming soon

• AZ prosecutors seek death penalty for hiker’s muderer

• NH House moves to ban geoengineering.

• Dunks toilet explosion

• SLASR Cameo 

• Walter and Gus Instagram

• Creation of the auto road and History

• Spruce tree saves falling ADK hiker

• Selfie fail - NY hiker falls to her death while trying to take a picture.

• Hiker in distress Mt. Percival

 

Sponsors, Friends  and Partners

• Mount Washington Higher Summits Forecast

• Fieldstone Kombucha

• Hiking Buddies 

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