Vermont

Trail Miles: 146
Highest Point: Killington Peak, 4,241 feet

The Green Mountains.  By From the nek (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

In Vermont, the AT journeys through the spectacular Green Mountains.  These mountains in Vermont gradually become more difficult and higher as you progress northward.  Still, though, they are not the difficulty level of those that still lie ahead.  About 100 or so miles of the AT here follows the same path as the Long Trail.  The Long Trail was begun in 1910 and was the first long-distance hiking trail completed in the US.  It traverses Vermont in a mostly north-south direction.

Of all the places I have never been that I want to see, Vermont in September is near the top of the list.  But if I am thru-hiking northward, I would need to be through Vermont before September, because the remaining trail in New Hampshire and Maine are brutal and unforgiving.

Vermont in fall.  By chensiyuan (chensiyuan) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons