It is fun to go to outlying mountains with friends and catch a view you haven’t seen in a few years, if ever, and especially on Indian summer days.
On Thursday, four of us headed north in two cars. We were heading to Mount Crag (1,412 feet) in Shelburne, a very pleasant 1.2-mile hike up to a great lookout ledge overlooking the Androscoggin River valley with a wide vista from Maine to Mount Washington.
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