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Published on: 3/28/2004
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Andrew Zboray, the manager at Monadnock State Park, has driven Holmes from the park in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, to the trailhead 2 1/2 hours north, and then cross-country skis along Holmes's route, just ahead of him, for much of the day.
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Zboray is skiing toward the parking lot just as darkness falls and gives one long look back toward Bondcliff."I could see snow squalls kicking up off the mountain," he says.
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Andrew Zboray first met Holmes about eight years ago when Holmes showed up one day to hike Mount Monadnock.
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"I liked Ken and his family from the moment I met them," says Zboray, who has worked at the state park since 1994, the last three years as manager.
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Zboray was used to hikers arriving at the tollbooth in sparkling new sport utility vehicles, eager to hassle him over the park's $2.50 usage fee.
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"Here was a man of limited means, driving a beat-up car, being dropped off by his family and he had to dig around for spare change to come up with the $2.50," Zboray says."
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As luck would have it, Zboray had been in need of a part-time park ranger, as spring means the return of the hordes of hikers that earn Monadnock its label as the most-climbed mountain in North America."I asked him if he wanted to work here, and he thought I was kidding," Zboray remembers.
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"I knew Ken was meant for this," Zboray says.
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"I printed out the forecast and handed it to him," Zboray says, "and he looked at it and said, 'It looks like the weather's not going to get bad again until Thursday,' and he had expected to be done before then.
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