FOR THOSE OF US who remember the good ol’ days of the Spring Shampagne Stampede of the 1980s and early 1990s, this past Tuesday’s fifth annual Bagels Plus/Jen’s Fiends Scavenger Hunt was a bit of a clues-and-costume-based flashback.
In the SSS, presented by Horsefeathers, The Mountain Ear and Country Squire Real Estate for the benefit of the Memorial Hospital, teams would dress in costume and would compete in a hunt for clues on foot, running from shop to shop in North Conway Village.
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