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| | Rock Climbing school, Ice Climbing, Mountaineering, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts |
 | | While the majority of visitors hike the Presidentials in late spring, summer, or early fall, a growing number of winter climbers, with their special equipment and techniques, accept the significant challenges which the Presidentials provide in winter. |
 | | The other principal peaks remained unnamed until 1820 when a group of men from Lancaster, New Hampshire, led by famed guide Ethan Allen Crawford, climbed Mount Washington and gave names to several of the surrounding peaks - Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. |
 | | Mt Washington is less know for its other dangerous attributes, while New England is not thought of as an avalanche area, each year there are hundreds of avalanches in the White Mountains, some quite large and unfortunately some with fatal results. |
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