The highest is Mt. Washington, at 6,288 feet. Don't let the elevation fool you. We're near the ocean, so the base elevation is low. Many of these mountains rise 3,000 feet or more over the valleys below. They stick up into the weather tracks above.
Storms come from the coast, the midwest, the south, and Canada.
Even for a mountain, that's a lot of weather. Their instruments often record extreme cold, dense fog, heavy snow and very strong winds all at once. The mountain claims the names of over 125 people who may have survived had they visited on a different day. White Mountain National Forest Formed by colliding sections of the earth's crust and shaped by the glaciers of 10,000 years ago, the White Mountains of New Hampshire were named by the earliest sailors to New England, who saw them on clear days from Portland Harbor, Maine. In summer the lightly-colored granite on the treeless summits makes them look white.