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40 years ago today: After a steep scramble up a rockslide, the trail broke out of the forest onto open rocks and ledges along the ridge crest with great views southward across the valley.

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The neighboring large towns of North Adams and Williamstown spread out below, covering a broad, relatively flat section of the river valley.
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Mount Greylock rose massively as a backdrop to the south, and westward I could make out a northern spur of the Taconics. A short while later, another climb brought me to a spot called Eph’s Lookout with similar views.
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After the second lookout, the #AppalachianTrail followed a level stretch of ridge crest. Less than a mile later, I arrived at a Green Mountain Club trail register. I was at the Vermont state line and the southern terminus of the Long Trail.
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With more than 1500 miles and about three-and-a-half months of walking behind me, I had arrived in northern New England at last.

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Kept getting a strange error attempting to add ALT text for pic on spout 3, so: We are standing on a rocky ledge atop a mountain, looking down over the treetops at a long, broad valley hundreds of feet below. This portion of the valley is mostly green farm fields and broad swaths of trees.
10:00 AM - Aug 21, 2023
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There are rural lanes, several small clusters of homes and farm buildings, and a small pond with a little dock just below us.
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