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Mountain Stream, New Hampshire, 1995

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An autumn blush colors trees along a secluded stream in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Part of the Appalachian Mountains, the Whites, as they're called locally, are home to 6,300-foot (1,916-meter) Mount Washington, tallest mountain in Northeastern United States and record-holder for the fastest winds on Earth—231 miles an hour (372 kilometers an hour).

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The White Mountains," September/October 1995, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

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Photograph by Medford Taylor

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