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A couple of months ago, Delaney Le Hood moved to New Hampshire.

She's originally from Black Hills of South Dakota,

and she's pretty active.

Outdoor things are really big in rock climbing and skiing and all that.

But lately, she's been shifting more to hiking because of the coronavirus.

The consensus in the community is don't climb. It's not safe. There's lots of

touching the same surfaces and equipment and that kind of things.

Instead of climbing, Delaney's been looking for hikes in her new home state.

And a couple of weekends ago, she picked Mount Manadnock.

Again, she's new to the state, but this was maybe the worst possible mountain to have picked.

It might be apocryphal, but the lore in New Hampshire is that Manadnock is the second most hiked mountain in the world behind Mount

Fuji. And that's because it's a bigish mountain and it's pretty close to some major

northeastern cities.

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