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North Andover Man's Wedding Ring Found By Hikers Atop Mountain

Bill Giguere lost his wedding ring on a 4,000-foot snow-covered New Hampshire mountain. A hiking group with a metal detector found it.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — A man's quest to find his wedding ring on a 4,000-foot snow-covered mountain in New Hampshire has been completed by a couple of hikers — and a metal detector.

WMUR-TV reports Bill Giguere, of North Andover, Mass., recently lost the gold band on Mount Hancock. Giguere, who had been wearing it for three years, put out a plea to a hiking group for help.

Tom Gately saw the post but had doubts about finding the ring along the 10-mile loop trail Giguere hiked.

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Giguere said the most likely spot was at a lookout where he changed gloves.

Gately and fellow hiker Brendan Cheever set out with a metal detector.

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Cheever said: "It beeped and he's, like, 'I think I found it,' and everybody's, like, 'What?' and he just started scratching in the snow. There it was!"