BARTLETT — When Massachusetts man Michael Lunardo came up north to go hiking with his two dogs, they (and he) ended up spending a lot more time in the wilderness than he’d planned after one of them got loose and went missing for 11 days.
The story began when Michael Lunardo, 29, came up to the valley on July 3 to go hiking with his dogs Rocko, a husky, and Bergie, a husky-Lab mix.
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