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Acknowledgments Abbreviations A Reader's Note Introduction Where We Come From: Thinly Settled to Thickly Surrounded Finding Kate: Searchers' Stories Seven Calls: Help Me Who's Coming What Took You So Long? In the Beginning White Fingers Pointing toward the Wind: The Incident That Helped Shape Our Modern Mountains The Woods Are Whacked, and the Feds Arrive Getting into Dodge: Incidents from the Joe Dodge Era in the Whites The Gathering: Steep Enough to Slide, 1954 It's the Law: New Hampshire Fish and Game Assumes the Lead When the Angles and the Odds Rise: The Need for a Technical Team Answering the Call: One for Many-Albert Dow Colorful Chips: White Mountain SAR's Modern Mosaic Women and Men in SAR Go-Go or No-Go: Up against Extremes The Other Side: The Case for Doing Nothing Command: A Meditation on Being in Charge of Rescue (and of Self) The Law Goes Up Too Call in the Suits: The Courtroom in the Hills Who Pays? (and What That Says) New Extremes: Superlative Adventure and Search and Rescue The Exception of Air Back to the Future? White Mountain SAR in 2020 and Beyond Next Gen What's at Stake: How Search and Rescue Shapes Our Mountains Why Go? Saving Others, Saving Yourself Appendix A: The HikeSafe Program Appendix B: Pack Like a Rescuer Sources and Further Reading Index