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 This week we are joined by Shawn Mahoney. Shawn is known as the guy who hikes with one of the biggest hiking celebrities in the region - Larry The Log. Shawn has been hiking with his log for the last few years and has now completed the triple crown of thru hiking - having done the PCT and CDT since he last joined us on episode 79. In addition to catching up with Shawn we have some weather predictions for the winter, we talk about whistle usage, Road closures, a woman drops her phone in a crevice and ends up stuck upside down for hours, missing elderly couple in Maine, Gear Reviews, Recent hikes on Crescent Mountain and Mount Randolph, and local search and rescue news. 

 This weeks Higher Summit Forecast

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About Shawn Mahoney

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Topics

• Happy Halloween 

• Welcome Wild Raven Endurance Coaching! 

• Stick Season is here! 

• Daylight Savings is coming 

• Mike Travels to London

• Whistle safety discussion

• NH Farmers Almanac forecast

• Forest Roads Status

• Stuck between a rock and a rock

• Elderly people going missing 

• Trail Talk Highpoint Podcast (Thanks Al)

• Heart health

• Cold Turkey Plunge at Waterville Valley

• Gear talk

• Ty Gagne’s new book preview

• Welcome Shawn Mahoney - Larry the Log returns! 

• Recent Search and Rescue news

Show Notes

• Apple Podcast link for 5 star reviews

• SLASR Merchandise

• SLASR LinkTree

• Wild Raven Endurance Coaching

• The oldest door in Westminster Abbey

• Forest Road Status

• TrailsNH

• Woman drops phone,  gets stuck upside down in cave

• Missing hiker, 72, found near her dead husband’s body in Maine woods kept alive after dog slept on her chest

• Missing woman in Ossipee, NH

• Husband offering a reward

• Follow up on a recent Rescue on Mount Madison

• Original Story of rescue

• Heart screenings offered after students death

• Life Line Screening Services

• Cold Turkey Plunge

• Lighting solution for those afraid of night hiking.

• Video 

• stocking stuffer

• The Lions of Winter - Survival and Sacrifice on Mount Washington

• Man Slips on Bingham Falls in Stowe, VT, hypothermic and still telling bad jokes

• Injured hiker, Mt. Roberts Trail

• Injured hiker, Ammonoosuc Ravine Tr

• Medical emergency, Mt. Chocorua 

• Injured hiker, Tripyramids 

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