On Thursday evening, February 2, the Granite State ARA participated in an inaugural event at Milford High School called Milford Applied Technology CTE. Samantha Belcourt-Director, Jennifer DiMaria-Career Development Specialist, and Frank Xydias-engineering and STEM educator hosted the event. U.S. Congress representative Ann Kuster participated in the opening remarks.

Since cellular service is essentially non-existent at the mountain, a commercial repeater used some years ago to link the coordination personnel on one side of the mountain to various encampments on the opposite side of the mountain was reactivated. The primary purpose is to deal with any emergencies, as well as situational awareness and general communications between the leaders and chaperones