Current Mt. Washington (NH) conditions as of this writing:

Friday, 1/29/10, 3:30 PM (EST)Temperature -20.7 degrees F
Wind 64.9 mph
Direction 284 degree (W)
Gust 71.3 mph
Wind Chill -64.1 degrees F

Here's the link to the page where I got this, if you want to check the ongoing current conditions up there, which are particularly brutal during the winter months, but which can be "interesting" during the summer months too (there is no month of the year that doesn't register a 100+ mph gust and/or sustained wind speed during any given year).

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)