1938 Hurricane Pictures

[cooperhill]

I was looking through my old Appalachias and found this article in the June 1939 called "Windthrow".

The pictures speak for themselves but I thought this short story was interesting:

"Not long after the storm Bob Ohler, hutmaster at Madison, and Don Allen, ex-hutmaster at Lakes-of-the-Clouds, tried to reach Greenleaf Hut. They struggled six hours, but had to give it up when the only indication of a trail was an occasional waterbar, dangling high in the air from the roots of an upturned tree."

Here they are:

Twinway:



Galehead Trail:



Galehead Trail 2:



Cog Railway:



Sorry for poor quality scans.

 

[brianW]

have seen pics from the Monadnock and north central MA areas. The pic from the cog really cool.

 

[Kevin Rooney]

Thanks for taking the time to scan those in.

The pics remind me of some of the devastation which Hurricane Floyd wreaked on the ADKs not so many years ago. That one missed much of New England, but really whacked parts of NY.

 

[psmart]

Here's a first-hand account of some of the hurricane damage in the Sandwich Range:

http://www.wodc.org/1938.htm

 

[peakbagger]

A friend of mine was at a yard sale in VT a few years back and saw an older WMNF folded up map for sale from 1940. He bought it for less than a dollar. It turned out to be a special printing showing the areas of the WMNF that were closed due to Hurricane damage. Galehead was not one of the closed areas so I expect toher places were even worse than the photos.

 

[cooperhill]

A friend of mine was at a yard sale in VT a few years back and saw an older WMNF folded up map for sale from 1940. He bought it for less than a dollar. It turned out to be a special printing showing the areas of the WMNF that were closed due to Hurricane damage. Galehead was not one of the closed areas so I expect toher places were even worse than the photos.

This is the map that was in the Appalachia article:

 

[RoySwkr]

It turned out to be a special printing showing the areas of the WMNF that were closed due to Hurricane damage.

I had scans of that map posted online but I think that website went away, there is an old note here about that somewhere

 

[Trail Bandit]

OK, this isn't hiking related but here are two photos of the old stone bridge in Henniker, NH taken before and after the hurricane of 1938.