RON..the photos you posted were fine..they really captured
the feeling of what a mountan top was like..i have read
about Mt Washington and seen magazine photos but yours were
more "realistic"..i assume your using a digital camera..
for many years i took my Nikkormat or Nikon F on canoe trips
and got great photos because i could control the speeds and
such..i have a Olympus Stylus now that i got because i wanted
something lightweight..it's a good thing i can get hundreds
of photos on one chip because half of them have the same
problems you were talking about..bad exposures..bluring..
i lay the problem to the total automatic systems in the camera
that set all the speeds and lens openings--and don't tell you
what they are..plus there are a lot more settings in the menu
that can be hard to find in a hurry..back lighting and so on..
if i'm shooting my Nikon at 60th of a second i know to brace
myself..with the Olympus i hold it up and shoot and get a
"lag" before the shot is taken and a bad shot..outside of the
monopod idea about all i can think of is a high-end camera
that takes digital photos but let you control the shot..
i guess the only other option is take LOTS of photos and
pick the best..out of 600 i took i'm happy with less than
100...