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"But you don’t need to," Aidan insisted "We don’t need Dad here right now"

Or ever

Hudson slid hioat-fuck, how stubborn are you going to be about this?" Hud asked

Aidan just gave hioat-fuck then," his brother muttered "Perfect"

They pulled up to the incident co a needle in a haystack," Hudson said, squinting at the fog

No doubt During the summer months they had more rescues than any other ti, challenging trails for hiking, and sonet for what they called weekend walkers--people ere office-dwellers during the week and adventure-seekers on the weekend They were the s stayed so busy for S&R and the fire depart creeks and estuaries, the river rapids could go fro it all too easy to run into trouble And in spite of the carefully posted warnings, the signs were all too often ignored It was as if people lost all coot onto a dirt trail

Today’s trouble caone on an overnight hiking expedition to Eagle’s Cove They’d decided to prank the sole single girl in their foot because he could s into the woods

And had not been seen since

This had been at irls hadn’t called it in until four a a return trick on theet in trouble

But then a bear had crossed their paths, and they’d all run screa all the way back to base, convinced their friend had becohting They’d most likely seen a black bear, known to be ot between afor the best, Aidan and Hudson geared up with the others on their teaht an extra shift at the fire station so he hadn’t ht

There’d been plenty of June snowstorh for one today, but there was no precip in the forecast

Small favors

Two hours into the search, the sun had co off a branch She’d gotten as far as the base of North Peak

Proble which way she’d gone Alone in the dark, frightened, she could’ve chosen any of three options

The tea a different direction, with Aidan and Hudson continuing north A quarter of a ged on another branch