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Cosmo. Bachelor blowout. Full page spread. There in all his reclining glory is NOLS North Cascades Mountaineering grad Thomas Hand. The outdoorsy Thomas Hand was the “wrench” who converted the NOLS Bus to run on recycled vegetable oil last summer.
We love ya, Thomas. Now slip out of that cable-knit sweater and into something a bit more, well, ya know, hunky.
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