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Lauren R. Stevens: Hiking through Mount Washington State Forest to the Alander Mountain summit
The ideal Berkshire hike tunnels under a leafy overstory, preferably beside a mountain brook, to an unimpeded overlook, with vestiges of history along the way. Welcome to Alander Mountain, in the county’s and the commonwealth’s southwestern highlands, …