I took a friend up Sentinel Mountain (1,680 feet) in the Ossipee Range this week. Describing it beforehand, I told her it was a perky little mountain.
Rising sharply above Little Dan Hold Pond, it is located inside the “ring dike” of an old volcano. It is composed of Moat volcanics, a combination of basalt and ryolite.
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