By Ed Parsons
This week I took a hike up Pine Mountain (2,405 feet) in Gorham. Once, instead of turning south towards Pinkham Notch from Mount Madison, the Appalachian Trail descended directly to the village of Gorham via Pine Mountain on the Pine Link Trail. In the 1990s, the lower section of this trail connecting Pine Mountain with Gorham, was reopened as the 2.7 mile Pine Mountain Trail.
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