Lone Wolf - Nice job adding CT to this list! I love our little state.
Maine for swimming
New Hampshire for views (too many people in the Whites, though).
Vermont for its greenery
(Vermont's name is a contraction of "Les Montes Vertes" as spoken by Samuel de Champlain - literally, "The Green Mountains"). The license plates read, "Vermont, the Green Mountain State" - redundancy.
New York for its frequent deli locations near the trail (lots of litter near trail heads frequently, unless volunteers have picked it up before you go through)
New Jersey for its open ledges (I have quite a few photos in the gallery from NJ)
I wasn't too impressed with Mass. (except for the southernmost stretch), or Connecticut.
I haven't hiked the rockiest stretches of Pa. yet, so I won't comment except for the fact that I've seen more hunters on the Trail than in any other state.
Georgia is a great workout - hardly a level stretch anywhere. The closest thing to it is the gradual grade (forever) heading north from Dick's Creek Gap until you hit the N.C. line and proceed to climb straight up!
The Blue Ridge in Va. is pretty, relatively well graded with nice views, and there are plenty of (expensive) wayside restaurants along the parkway.
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As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11
The fifty-sixth state!!!
Alabama, after/but then I realized I had been holding my map upside down for the first 450 miles of my trip.
I've only done a northern chunk, but...
New Jersey (for it's views). There are orange salamanders, lots of snakes, some cool buildings...
Least favorite: New Hampshire and Maine
The mountains blocked my view.
David Smolinski
Maine, Vermont and Virginia were all surprising in good ways to me. Maine's lakes and ponds. Vermont was nice to roll into pastoral scenes mixed in with mtns... Virginia had a lot of beauty I didn't expect.
NH is super, but I moved here for the landscape, so opinion is biased by that.
Glad to hear NJ. I lived there for 30 years until I moved to FL. Everytime I'd have friends/relatives that made fun of NJ while visiting, I"d take them to the Del. Water Gap or High Point. Everyone of them would say "This isn't really NJ is it?" LOL.
That's my top 3. I think there is a 13 way tie for first, and Pa is 2nd.Originally Posted by Chop
James Taylor turned 64 today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78O6--THTF0
...... and is still batty as all get out.
"Fish Camp Woman.... Baby, I like the way you smell"
- Unknown Hinson
I get a lot of BS for living in NJ but spending most of my time swimming in Crater lake, climbing Buttermilk Falls, Going up to the fire tower (catfish), chilling at Sunfish pond, trips to Sunrise Mtn. and being so close to the DWG makes it all worth it. It is all I have ever known. My wife actually grew up in the last house before the state park on the road you cross after coming down from the catfish fire tower northbound about 1/2 mile from the trail.
Yeah joisey is best!
Roan Highlands Tennessee/North Carolina
I SOOOO can't wait for Roan Highlands... I've been thinking of holding off to do that area as a reward or something later on, but I may just have to do it this year
Grayson Highlands, Va. Also I have a propensity for Vermont. Guess because I can make it up there a few times a year these days.
Colorado in the fall, when the aspens are blazing gold and the air is something out of this world.
And when a world of snow is soon to be falling onto you. Been there, done that, just squeaked through ..."Colorado in the fall, when the aspens are blazing gold and the air is something out of this world."
I'll stick with Oregon.
Gadget
PCT: 2008 NOBO, AT: 2010 NOBO, CDT: 2011 SOBO, PNT: 2014+2016
PA Rocks!
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
WWO, is this picture Tourist advertizeing or "Warning: KEEP OUT", 'cause when ever I flash back to PA/AT, this picture is what I vision! I love Pa. though, you have the most wonderful trout streams!
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more pa rocks!
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