Saturday I went up Abraham and Ellen for my second and third of the VT-5.  The weather forecast was for cold weather with a possibility of snow.  Well, that wasn't wrong, but I was overdressed.  The trail in starts right away with the uphill, with no warm up.  The leaves have fallen, but the trail was well traveled so it wasn't hard to follow or extra slippery.  About 0.7 miles in, I stop and strip off the upper layers.  I was dripping sweat, and I didn't want to be wet when I got to the top in another 2 miles.

To continue my NE111 quest, I branched out of NY once again and hit the closest peak in Vermont, Killington.  The trail up was quite lovely.  It was a long relatively flat wooded trail that ranged from trail width to forest road and was an absolute pleasure to hike.  The mile or so of up to the AT/LT was steady, but nothing difficult.  Up to this point is was mostly dirt with some interspersed rocks for trail.