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Seneca Rocks

An alarm on my tent-mate’s phone buzzes and we stir in our cozy sleeping bags. “I’ll start the coffee if you pack the tent,” one of them says, and the other nods. We warm up gradually as we shuffle through our morning tasks at the Seneca Rocks Mountain Guides basecamp – getting dressed (probably in…

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