Along the south coast, 1, 120m-high Precipitous Bluff is one of the lowest peaks on the list, but conditions are so notoriously bleak year round that the mountain consistently foils hopeful summiteers.

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Members of the Carneddau Mountain Pony Society round the ponies up once a year to check on numbers and prevent inbreeding.

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After the town's paper mill failed in the 1960s, a group of local investors led by Sherman Adams, one-time aide to President Eisenhower, developed a ski resort on Loon Mountain and turned Lincoln into a year-round recreation center.

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