Originally Posted by Radix

Hey Hammer!
Thanks for your comments! We started out in sunshine with temps in the 50's. Then ascended into a cloud covered, 39 degree summit with visibility of 75-100ft. At about the halfway point when I reached 4000 feet, the winds were blowing at 35-50 mph. I almost got knocked down a few times on my bike. At one point I was a foot away from tumbling down a 1000+ foot ravine, but was able to make a last second correction as the gust died down. At the back breaking 22% S turn finish, I had enough in the tank for a sprint finish and made it to the last corner about 50 feet from the finish line when I got blown off course so far I had to do a U turn and came about two inches from going off the road and crashing! Wind chill on the summit was 10-11 degrees. A few minutes after I got off my bike, I was shaking so badly I had trouble getting warm clothes on.

FYI, the weather info came from folks at the observatory which I doubted at the time and then I checked it out for myself at the following link
http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/conditions.php