1529 miles- between Great Barrington and Dalton, MA

Wow time flies! It's been a little over a week and we've completed all of NY, CT, and are working on being outta MA and into VT by next monday the 16th.

NY was a pretty tough state right out of the gate, but once we made it over the Hudson it was nicer hiking as we weren't being forced to climb directly up and over every mountain (which were surprisingly rocky and challenging- particularly from the NJ state line to the river).

In CT we followed the Housatonic River via more of the Taconic mts. (which were also in NY east of the Hudson River). We're really looking forward to seeing more of New England.

Also, we finally met up with our friends who we've been chasing for 1000+ miles at the CT-MA border on Tuesday. It's been nice to spend a couple days of hanging out with them, but we have to get back to hiking more and stick to our schedule to finish by the end of September. This has been a wild experience and we can wait to see what the last 650 miles have in store for us.      

Oh yeah- laura's platypus just broke and we also just realized that we left our water filter at a shelter this morning (15miles south of here- too far to go back looking for it). We'll have to figure something out once we get to a larger town.