VT - Mount Equinox

Mount Equinox is the highest mountain in the Taconic Range, the climb is steep and unrelenting. It's about a 1000m ascent and the same down.
Apparently, the first half is pure incline like setting your treadmill at 15%. The second half is more stairmaster-like with stepping up rocks.

Hence we decided not to do it 😃

But there is a very nice but very steep drive up to the top - Skyline Drive. Surely one of the most expensive private toll routes in the world but totally worth it for the views and saving my knees going down.

When we got up the summit, the temperature had plummeted to 8 degrees with a keen wind
But the views are stunning even if the Green Mountains are still a bit greener than we would have liked. But there are hints of Autumn colours coming through.

From the summit we took a small hiking trail to Lookout Rock. Not a bad view of Manchester Village but can't beat the 360 degree view from the top.

Driving down I was glad when we reached the bottom. The high revs of the car engine didn't sound nice 😬もっと詳しく