The Presidentials are a ridge of bald rounded peaks above tree-line
— — a line of bald heads above the trees.
Not only on a wall.
“A 25-mile arc of summits along the spine of the White Mountains, all of them named for early presidents. The trees stop around 4,400 feet and the ridge runs on in rock and sedge and cushion plants the rest of the way up. Washington carries the high point at 6,288 feet, the highest in the Northeast. The wind blows hard most days. On the clear ones you can see Maine and the Atlantic. from the studio
The Presidentials are a ridge of bald rounded peaks above tree-line, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The Presidential Range is the high spine of the White Mountains in northern New Hampshire, running roughly 25 miles from Mount Madison in the north to Mount Webster in the south. Most of the summits carry presidential names — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Eisenhower, Pierce — together with Clay and Webster. Mount Washington at 6,288 feet is the highest point in the northeastern United States. The range lies within the White Mountain National Forest, much of it within the federally designated Presidential Range–Dry River Wilderness, accessed mainly from Pinkham Notch on the east and Crawford Notch on the west.
The treeline on the Presidentials runs near 4,400 feet, low for the latitude — a function of the latitude itself, the exposure, and a wind regime more typical of a much higher range. Above the krummholz, the ridge holds one of the largest tracts of alpine tundra in the eastern United States, with sedge meadows, cushion plants, and rare species such as dwarf cinquefoil and Bigelow's sedge. Mount Washington's summit observatory, founded in 1932, recorded a surface wind of 231 miles per hour in April 1934, a world record for a manned station that stood for decades.
The classic ridge traverse runs roughly 23 miles from Appalachia trailhead on Route 2 over Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Monroe, Eisenhower and Pierce to Crawford Notch, with the Appalachian Mountain Club's high huts at Madison Spring, Lakes of the Clouds and Mizpah for staged crossings. Most parties take two or three days. Mount Washington alone can be reached by the Cog Railway from Marshfield, the Auto Road from Pinkham Notch, or any of several foot routes. Weather above treeline is severe and changes quickly; the AMC posts a daily forecast at Pinkham.