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A hiker lost in heavy snow and without cell service sent a last-second text for help from his dying phone, and rescuers arrived, New Hampshire officials say. The hiker, identified as a 52-year-old Massachusetts man, was on a solo trek in New Hampshire’s White Mountains when he became lost on Friday, March 21, the state Fish and Game Department said in a March 23 Facebook post. He had packed for a two-day excursion, bringing many essentials except snowshoes, which he’d decided he wouldn’t need, the department said. But on the...