Last Friday, May 6th, Samantha Brown from the Travel Channel, and her husband Kevin O’Leary spent the afternoon on the mountain! Although she was really in the area for the NH Governor’s Conference on Tourism, she just had to get up the Auto Road. Raised in New Hampshire she had never been up the Road, can you believe that? She brought a piece of her luggage from her own collection (soon to be released on the Home Shopping Network) and slapped our modified, famous bumper sticker right on the front- “This BAG Climbed Mt Washington”. After autographs and photos at the base with our super excited staff we were off.
The summit winds were gusting to 50mph and there was still rime ice lightly coating the rocks and posts. We toured the Mount Washington Observatory with Stacy and finished with a climb to very top of the tower and got face to face with the wind.
Now it was time for the final push to the summit, with the luggage of course. Climbing the snow covered rocks in street clothes with luggage would have been quite difficult, so Howie made sure her bag arrived safely.
We had a luggage photo shoot at the summit of Mt. Washington!
This certainly was not how I pictured my afternoon but you never know what will happen on Mt Washington. Samantha says luggage should go on vacation with you not for you, so she’s taking pictures of her luggage on vacation. If you happen to purchase any of her luggage or any luggage make sure you let it relax and get some great photos! – Meg
love Samantha Brown hope she had a good time.
Cool post!
So does this mean you were open to the top last weekend!?
Any news on this weekend?
We were not open when she was here on Friday. We still needed a vehicle with chains and there were still quite a few snow drifts on the 6 and 7 mile. There might be a chance we could open to the summit this coming weekend, as always be sure to call ahead.
sure hope Howie (and others) will keep us posted on progress of alpine flowers along the Auto Road as he’s done in the past!
Sure! We’ll be happy to keep you up to date on alpine flower progress as the spring time arrives in the mountains. hw
luv your show sam