At 7:00 a.m. on summer mornings my dad would stomp up the spiral staircase to the loft of our mountain condo and flip the lights on. I was instantly awake, my mind humming, but my dad would have to drag my sister out of bed. Wanting to be like her (as all little siblings do), I pretended to still be asleep. When my sister had finally risen, we would grab our hiking boots and red fleeces and hit the trails....

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