Three times during the 1930s, a ski race was run from the summit cone of Mount Washington, the highest mountain in the northeastern United States, to the base lodge at Pinkham Notch. The course of the race - dubbed the American Inferno - ran over the headwall of Tuckerman Ravine, which in some areas drops at more than 50 degrees. Since the 1930s attempts to recreate the original American Inferno have been cancelled several times due to extreme weather conditions. Although races along parts of the route have been held from time to time, it is unlikely that the true American Inferno of the 1930s will ever be held again due to its highly unsafe design, and weather problems - both extreme winter weather (at the summit) and spring melting and flooding (at the base).