Father and son, North Conway’s Ashley and Aiden Cyr, reached Cranmore’s summit after skinning up from the base. Ashley lauded his son’s efforts with words of accomplishment and encouragement to which the tired 11-year-old John Fuller School sixth-grader added: “It’s definitely exhausting.”
Last Sunday, about 30 people from tweens to seniors of varying abilities turned out for the inaugural Cranmore Uphill Series.
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