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    AMC Action Plan for 2025-30

    Point well taken Yuri. My experience is in health care where for profit companies in direct competition with non profits and are making it increasingly difficult for the traditional non profit hospitals (who emphasize quality of care over profits and pay outs to shareholders and CEO’s) to...
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    AMC Action Plan for 2025-30

    Dr Daisypiodidae as always provides thoughtful and well researched information and analysis. Like him I also applaud the AMC’s transparency. I also agree that in the modern world assets of $213 milllion is essentially chump change for a nonprofit. Most nonprofits require quite a lot more just to...
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    AMC Action Plan for 2025-30

    Agree with OldEric about the definition of partisan, but also with sierra about the imprecision of language and how quickly it can get misinterpreted in the on line chat medium without body language or the ability to interact and redefine what is meant in real time. Good reason to be patient and...
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    AMC Action Plan for 2025-30

    In the NG article Douglas lists the nightly high season 1961 hut fee at $7.50 a night which included “lodging, supper, breakfast, a trail lunch for the next day’s travel- and a companionship beyond price.” And from the article they were serving Roast Beef and Roast Turkey for dinner. Adjusting...
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    AMC Action Plan for 2025-30

    Very cool! Pretty much how I remember it in 1967 at age 12 on my first trip up Ammonoosuc Ravine to Lakes, then the next morning up to the Washington summit and then back down the Jewel Trail. The camp senior counselor who led us was a totally into it veteran who wore lederhosen, Limmer boots...
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    AMC Action Plan for 2025-30

    I grew up in a non-outdoors family and back in the 1960’s back pack trips with my camp to Lakes of the Clouds was my introduction to a lifelong love of the White Mountain National Forest and its peaks. Later the huts offered the opportunity to introduce my children to that same love and awe...
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    Backpacking Thoreau Falls / Shoal Pond

    Thanks JoshandBaron! Is it on the trail side of the North Fork or across the river?
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    Backpacking Thoreau Falls / Shoal Pond

    Hey Joe, just wondering if you can share a GPS pin for the Jumping Brook tent site Looks great!
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