Wrapping Vermont – The Trek

Vermont in the AT is famous for two things … mud and insects. And I could certainly experience them both in that order.

Begin

When I first entered Vermont, I was surprised how steep and the slow state felt. Maybe it was because I thought I could make a refueling in the middle of a day of 24 miles or maybe I was too confident, but Vermont humiliated me quickly. As soon as I crossed the state line, I discovered that I was not going to be drawing miles as I had been in recent states. But I knew that it could continue to relentlessly deployed the miles and make the state one step at the same time.

The mud

My first day in Vermont, the mud was solid and was easy to work. The huge clay wells existed, but were very easy to give rise or find places inside them in which one foot would not sink. But my first night in the state, the rains arrived and did not stop over the next two days. The continuous rain left the path in a muddy and thick state that made mud wells inevitable. A few hours after walking in the rain, I had given up and marched through the mud.

The errors

As much as VT is famous for mud, insects are almost equally bad. Black flies have a special ability to fly directly to my ocular balloons and mosquitoes are implacable. I feel that I am leaving vermont with more mouths of insects on my legs than not. But at least I finally bought a head network.

The long path

For the first 100 miles more or less of Vermont. The AT and Long path share the same path, which means an influx of visitors from the path. This was a fantastic surprise for me! There were so many people along the way to hang out. Apparently, twice the hikers left the carpentry, and the path felt full of people and social as I had done in the south for me. In general, I loved the Vermont section that was parallel to the long path.

The shelters

I stayed in two hostels in Vermont: the house of the green mountain and the yellow deli. Both were incredible experiences. Jeff does a great job by directing the house of the green mountain, and it was one of the best and most soft shelter experiences that I have had so far. In addition, the Yellow Deli also executed very well (… yes, I know everything discussed). Regardless of what other hikers can say, my stay in La Deli Amarilla was great!

The end of the State

After Rutland, the AT goes to the east as the long path continues north to Canada. After the division, the path apparently returned to normal. The influx of hikers decreased, but I managed to find myself in a small bubble of hikers in the section while eliminating the end of the state.

The heat

While the path at the end of Vermont was more meek, the weather was not. I faced three consecutive days of temperatures in the 90s. This was an unusually hot section for the northeast and made a very hard hiking. I had to adjust my programming to start walking much earlier in the morning and stop earlier in the afternoon to overcome the heat of the day. While I did not enjoy the heat, I survived and even obtained some fantastic views from the upper part of the shelter to look due to my beginning of the morning.

The green tunnel?

Some hikers have referred to the VT as the greatest culprit of being the green tunnel. The State has less views than their many increases should provide. And these hikers were right. The combination of several days of rain and fog left many completely erased views in a sea of ​​clouds. But while some disappointed nuclei, others were equally incredible. The green mountains were surely a great moment!

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