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Originally Posted by Frdxplorer
While absolutely agreeing, people should also not be scared away from winter hiking. There are lots of much easier trails that, while perhaps not providing a view quite like the one from Washington, are still very rewarding.
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You are definitely right. To add to what you just said, I had an outdoorsy high school teacher who told me (in my pre-mountaineering days) that the views from the lower mountains are better than the views on the higher ones, because those higher mountains only look BIG when you're looking up at them. As a 16-year-old I didn't see the point of climbing anything small, or even taking a simple hike through a flat area with a view. I didn't know how right he was until I'd seen for myself: The White Mountains look small from the top of Mount Washington! I had to use my long lens to give them justice in my photos.
The size of any winter hike still shouldn't matter when it comes to preparing- I don't know how many times I've heard about lost, unprepared people getting rescued from Mount Major in Alton.