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The view south from the lookout on the Crawford Ridgepole Trail. (ED PARSONS PHOTO)

This Tuesday I checked out a trail I hadn't done before called the Brooks Fisher Trail in Holderness. This 1.3-mile trail is the only trail on the north side of the Squam Range. It terminates on the wooded ridge where it meets the 11.3-mile Crawford Ridgepole Trail that traverses the entire range. From there you take a left along the ridge for half a mile to a very pleasant lookout to the south over Squam Lake and the surrounding mountains.

The Brooks Fisher Trail was built by the Squam Lakes Association and completed in 2018. According to Katri Gurney, associate director of the Squam Lakes Association, it was designed and laid out in 2016 by then-director of the SLA Brett Durham. Gurney and two others did the majority of the work cutting the trail and a Lakes Region Conservation Trust AmeriCorps crew did the finishing touches.

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