Harvard Cabin

01/12/2024

Check out a film about our little cabin... Your little cabin. 😃

Below the summit, at the doorstep of Huntington Ravine, sits The Harvard Cabin — a remote respite for ice climbers and backcountry skiers to escape the elements. This film is an ode to the Caretakers that care for it, the men of Harvard that built it, and the mountaineers that rely on it. “The C...

01/26/2023

Please help us with our wood stove campaign!

Help Harvard Cabin reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends.

12/01/2022

Thanks for having us! Looking forward to working with you again this season.

Today, the MWAC staff conducted yearly Search and Rescue and avalanche safety messaging training with our partners from and . This awesome group is on the front-lines of visitor information and interactions and help to ensure that effective and timely safety information is available to those headed into the MWAC avalanche forecast area. Don’t forget to stop in the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center to say hi and check conditions this winter!

Our routine avalanche advisories and forecasts will begin when snowfields in the Presidential Range have some more time to develop. Until then, be sure to make your own safety assessments of snow, conditions, and weather - and make sure you have the right equipment before heading out into the mountains.

See you this winter!

12/01/2022

We are open for the season!!! Book your space or tent site for the weekend.

Bookings can be made for either a stay in the Harvard Cabin ($25/night per person) or in one of our tent sites ($10/night per person). To learn more about the accommodations in each, please visit our facilities information page.

03/08/2022

Starting today (right now!), the Harvard Cabin is open for online booking - up to a week in advance.
NEW: online reservations. Secure your spot in the cabin for this weekend! [link]
You asked, we listened. Book your stay at the Harvard Cabin online (tent sites too).

Bookings can be made for either a stay in the Harvard Cabin ($25/night per person) or in one of our tent sites ($10/night per person). To learn more about the accommodations in each, please visit our facilities information page.

11/10/2021

We are throwing it back to February of 2017 when we had a little bit of snow. 😉 Hopefully we will get to see snow levels like this for this year. 🤞

11/10/2021

Winter is coming. 😃😃😃😃

11/01/2021

With only one month till we open for the season, we thought we would share this photo, which was shot last year of two ice climbers just below the fan in Huntington Ravine heading toward Central Gully. We can’t wait to see you all at the cabin this season!

10/25/2021

We have been hard at work at the Harvard Cabin this past summer completing a long overdue project of building a new privy, pictured here. This project is one of the largest undertakings since the cabin was built in 1962. Our new privy was built from funds from a GoFundMe campaign that we commenced last fall along with a grant from Access Fund. The build took 15-volunteers 8-days, split into two 4-day work sessions, to build. A huge thank you to all the community members who helped out with the build. We are super stoked for the completion of this project and for opening this winter on Dec. 1st.

03/31/2015

Our friend Chris who works for the AMC at Pinkham Notch Visitor Center wrote a blog post about Harvard Cabin. Check it out and click Like for him on their page! Thanks, Chris!


http://conditions.outdoors.org/2015/03/huntington-ravine-and-last-week-of.html

03/25/2015

Check out this documentary featuring Harvard Cabin regular Billy Long.

An American Ascent won Best Director and Best Documentary at the San Diego Black Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the Mountain & Adventure Film Festival.

NYC people! You should go to the Premiere on Friday if you can.

Filmed 2 summers ago, and previously titled "Expedition Denali," the now-titled "An American Ascent" follows 9 mountaineers who attempted to

03/13/2015

The cabin has been pleasantly busy all week long. Not much longer until the end of season! If you've been meaning to come up and haven't yet, it's time to hop to it!

02/22/2015

Harvard Cabin had the first ever Ham Radio test-session-on-the-mountain - with new hams getting their tickets today! Congrats to those who took the test! We look forward to talking to you on the airwaves. They join the many hams recruited out of Harvard Cabin - including several HMCers. We even had the 6th grade son of the Darn Tough founder (the best socks ever) join us for the test. Kudos to him for fearlessly jumping in, even though he just discovered Ham Radio today. Hopefully, he got bit by the radio bug.

The test was administered by our local club, W1MWV, with a visiting ham from Connecticut. Thanks to Vinny, Greg and Marcia for being the examiners!
http://www.w1mwv.com/

We plan to make this an annual event. Study up and join us next time.

Welcome to the online home of the White Mountain Amateur Radio Club, W1MWV, located in the Mount Washington Valley in Northern New Hampshire. The goal of the White Mountain Amateur Radio Club is to promote an interest in amateur radio and to establish friendships among members and visitors. In doing…

02/10/2015

From the Caretaker's Uncle:

(except at Harvard Cabin, you don't have worry about fracturing butter)

http://www.bonappetit.com/people/article/eat-really-cold-really-really-cold

Yes, it's cold out. Maybe even too cold to go out for dinner. But wait till you read what the first man to cross Antarctica by dogsled had to eat before you start complaining.

01/21/2015

http://vimeo.com/36113029

Harvard Cabin has a long history of something awesome starting there.

"My main climbing partners were John Bragg, John Bouchard and Henry Barber..." Rick Wilcox narrates the ice climbing revolution of the Northeast in the 1960s and 1970s.

01/09/2015

Congratulations to HMCers Hollie and Dave!

Yesterday was a very cool day. Well yes, it was literally cold, but David and Hollie had a vision of getting married at one of their favorite places in the world, and that is the infamous Mount Washington. Thus, they asked fifteen of their nearest and dearest to attempt hiking up to the the Harvard Cabin with them to be apart of their "I do's". It was an amazing morning! It was cold but no wind, everyone marched up there at a solid pace, and they had a beautiful outdoor ceremony where they became husband and wife. More to come as they continued their celebrations at the Hardy Farm, but a huge congrats to David and Hollie! We will always vividly remember this adventurous winter wedding and fantastic couple! Here they are in front of the Harvard Cabin! Special thanks to Meg Simone Wedding Films for helping me shoot, and also my husband Bayard and Meg's partner Dave who were apart of our support/assistant crew!
Photographed by Anne Skidmore of Anne Skidmore Photography

12/30/2014

http://vineyardgazette.com/obituaries/2014/12/23/bill-putnam-was-prominent-broadcaster-alpinist

William (Bill) Lowell Putnam died Dec. 20 in Lebanon, N.H., after a traumatic fall. He was 90. He was a prominent alpinist and television broadcaster.