Howdy neighbor!

To begin, I’d like to dedicate today’s column to my late friend Allen F. Crabtree III. Now you may already know this about me, but I really love hiking. Our local hills have, ever since my youth, held something of a captivation over me; growing up hemmed in among them they’ve come to define my world, and I don’t think I’ve ever felt such a creeping sense of the uncanny as I did last spring when I had occasion to visit the wide, open, utterly mountain-less plains of Nebraska. While I’ve far from climbed every peak in these here parts, and were I to live a hundred years more I doubt I ever should, even so I like to think I’ve made my mark on the more worthy of our named peaks here in the Lake Region. 

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