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The Presidential Range is a mountain range located in the White Mountains of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Containing the highest peaks of the Whites, its most notable summits are named for American presidents, followed by prominent public figures of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Presidential Range is notorious for having some of the worst weather on Earth, mainly because of the unpredictability of high wind speeds and whiteout conditions on the higher summits. Because of the poor weather conditions, the Presidential Range is often used for mountaineering training for those who go on to climb some of the world's highest mountains, including K2 and Everest. Mt. Washington, long home of the highest winds recorded on the surface of the Earth at , is the tallest at , followed by neighboring peaks Mt. Adams at and Mt. Jefferson at . The range is almost entirely in Coos County. ==Notable summits== The highest mountains in the Presidential Range are named principally for U.S. presidents, with the tallest mountain (Mt. Washington) named for the first president, the second tallest (Mt. Adams) for the second president, and so on. However due to a surveying error, Mt. Monroe is actually taller than Mt. Madison, which is not the correct order of presidents. Among the range's most notable summits, in sequence from southwest to northeast, are: * Mount Webster — after Daniel Webster * Mt. Jackson * — after Charles Thomas Jackson (19th-century geologist) * Mt. Pierce * — after Franklin Pierce (formerly Mt. Clinton — after DeWitt Clinton) * Mt. Eisenhower * — after Dwight D. Eisenhower * Mt. Franklin — after Benjamin Franklin * Mt. Monroe * — after James Monroe * Mt. Washington * — after George Washington (a general at time of naming, and only later a president) * Mt. Clay — after Henry Clay (State of New Hampshire changed name to Mt. Reagan after Ronald Reagan; U.S. government still recognizes Clay name) * Mt. Jefferson * — after Thomas Jefferson * Mt. Sam Adams — after Samuel Adams * Mt. Adams * — after John Adams * Mt. Quincy Adams — after John Quincy Adams * Mt. Madison * — after James Madison Mt. Adams has, besides its main summit, four subsidiary peaks that are also commonly recognized by name; two, Sam Adams and John Quincy Adams, are listed above. The third and fourth are: *Mount Abigail Adams (formerly Adams IV) *Adams V The summits marked with an asterisk ( *) are included on the peak bagging list of 4,000-foot and higher mountains in New Hampshire; the others are excluded, in some cases because of lesser height and in others because of more technical criteria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Presidential Range」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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