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Thanks for the birthday greetings, Skip. Hit the double-double nickel: 55 cuz I was born in '55. And boy, after a long hike do my knees ever remind me of it!

Thanks for the birthday wishes, Diamond. Very thoughtful of you to notice! I hit the double nickels: 55.

Thank you, all, for your appreciations, understanding and sympathies. Polly's back to normal now. (On Monday she was still a little tense and wary from Sunday's adventure.) We're working again on a long line and she's responding better to the "Come" command, but this is going to be a long...

Thanks for the green spot, Trish. I grew up Lutheran and beating ourselves up is what we do best -- Jews and Catholics have nothing on Lutherans when it comes to guilt! But anyway, what an adventure you had with Alex on the same day, wow. I'll have more to say about that elsewhere, but I am so...

Thanks for the green spot, Audrey. I can't imagine missing a dog for 10 hours. You must have enormous patience and a huge heart to endure such a trial. But I'm so happy your dog found its way back to you.

Thank you for the green spot, Tom. The episode was a big scare, but it also served to remind us that our dogs absolutely depend on us for their safety. I won't forget that again.

Thanks for the green spot, Diamond. We're really happy to have Polly back!

Thank you for the comments, suggestions and, Ed, the story about Lauky. I remember when that happened. When I first read your report I couldn't imagine the feeling of looking for your lost dog for hours and hours; now I can. And anyone else who's ever been in that situation: you have my complete...

Trails: Mt. Kinsman, Kinsman Ridge Miles: The usual 8, up and back Time: Extended due to circumstances I had planned to write an oh-so-clever Trip Report full of witty (or not, depending) references to NH's most famous, and now late, resident, J.D. Salinger, but the way the day ended calls for...

Thank you for the green spot, Mark. I'm sorry too that we didn't get much chance to talk at the C-Man last Friday night, but we'll make up for it sometime soon. By the way, I've forgotten to tell you that I really appreciate your comments on the photos on my Flickr page. Thanks! /S

Anytime, Skip. Meantime, looking forward to our next hike. Maybe early Feb?

Thank you for the thoughtful green spot, Mark. Much appreciated!

Big thanks for the green spot, Trish. As I recall, Alex loved the descent off of Liberty -- am I remembering that right? In any case, we did too. Steep but fast!

Trails: Liberty Springs w/bushwhack, Franconia Ridge Mileage: ~8 Time: 5 hours Folks: (Human) Loanshark, Rob, Colin, James, The Feathered Hat. (Canine) Polly and Tuckerman. You know how something goes wrong at the beginning of the day and then the whole rest of the day seems to go wrong too...

The dogs and I will see you at 8 tomorrow morning at The Basin parking lot. Really looking forward to the hike. Great to see you and Liz last night. Wonderful conversation and fun. /S TFH

This is a very thoughtful idea, Trish. I think the information would be both useful and well-read (and used.)

Kinsman Ridge fills the view from my house in Franconia, and all day yesterday I kept looking up there and thinking, I hope BIGEarl's having a good day, somehow, in this weather! We didn't have much breeze down below, but I could tell the wind was whipping pretty good along the ridge's backbone...

Let's see... Tuesday, Jan. 5, or Friday the 8th would probably be my best days. I might be able to make Wednesday the 30th work. Right now, though, weekends work best for me. Don't schedule the hike around my schedule, though. If I miss this one, there will be others soon.

Indeed, I'd love to meet up for a hike soon. Maybe after the hoo-hah of Christmas? Just the other day I was remembering the first time I met you, at the bottom of Cannon Mountain last winter. (At the time this was a very rare Trish-without-Alex sighting.) But it'd be great fun this winter to...

Way to be flexible! I'm glad the day turned out to be a success for you. Sometimes hiking is like jazz -- you gotta improvise when the chord structure changes unexpectedly. I think I might've just missed you yesterday. I had an 11 a.m. meeting at the Highland Center, and once that was over...