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KING OF THE SHORE

Todd ‘Digger’ Fiander has spent most of his life in the woods.

he legendary North Shore trailbuilder started etching lines into the dirt on Mount Fromme in the early 1980s and hasn’t stopped since. Even now, at 60 years old with two recently replaced knees, he’s on the mountain far more often than he’s not. In fact, when I asked Rocky Mountain’s Stephen Matthews how to reach Digger, he told me: “The best way to

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