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    Punishing the peaks

    Nov 01, 2018 2 minutes
    By Mike Lynch

    Mary Lamb has been hiking in the High Peaks since the late-1980s. Over that time, she’s noticed that many trails have gotten significantly wider and more eroded.

    “It’s sad,” said Lamb, who lives in Ticonderoga. “I just feel like hiking other places now. I do a lot of lowland hiking now.”

    Lamb’s thoughts line up with a preliminary assessment of

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