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Blue Lines. Blue Lines are the beginning. They are the headwaters of ideas that start small, high in the Aether and frequently do not have any shape, guidance or even direction except towards each other. Each Blue Line tenaciously seeks out the next and persists until it converges. Ever aligning and increasing in strength and influence, nameless and seemingly insignificant Blue Lines work deceptively indifferently but astound by moving mountains.
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Blue Lines quite literally refer to the countless and nameless lines on a map that feed larger named streams and so on until they reach the oceans, and, by the way, move a few mountains in their passing. Those trickles descending off the western slope of Mt. Washington to form the Ammonsoosuc or the those falling off the eastern slope through Tuckerman's to form the Ellis or Big Poplar and Rock Creek(s) off Mt. Mitchell are the highest and some of the most prominent Blue Lines in the East and help to feed waters that ensnare Fly Anglers year-round.
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