The theme of our New Hampshire trip has been “stay below the tree line.” I’d like to say it’s because I don’t like really steep heights and it’s safer, but the real reason is that above tree-line trails hurt a lot.
So we looked in the glide (the guidebook that lies) and found the Pine Mountain Trail, which you can start from Gorham Village.
We started at the Dolly Copp/Pinkham “B” Road, which is the second Dolly Copp entrance off of Route 16 past Jackson and Pinkham Notch.
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| The dirt road trail |
You start on a dirt road that gently ascends. We took the Ledge Trail up (on the right, 0.9 miles up). Those of you who do not like heights know that going up is much easier than coming down because you aren’t looking down. The beauty of this route is that it is very steep going up, but you can take another path that leads you to the dirt road going down.
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| The start of the Ledge Trail |
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Entering the Ledge Trail
The trail is not well marked so when you get to the wide ledge, cut across it completely and pick up the trail again. The trail then narrows as it climbs up. I had to do a little bit of scrambling with my hands.
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| View from Pine Mountain summit |
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| Good spot for lunch |
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Beautiful views
The summit offers beautiful views of Mount Washington and Carter Notch. There are also several other vantage points, such as Angel View.
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| The backside of the summit |
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| Angel View |
We took the Pine Mountain Trail back down, which takes you by the Horton Center.
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| The Pine Mountain Trail |
The entire loop we did was 3.5
miles and it was very enjoyable.
Heidi’s rating: ★★★ great views without
having to climb very high
The Fat Man’s rating: 2 packs of Van-O-Lunch®
cookies (12 in total)
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