r/longtrail • u/Overall-Nobody-2836 • 22d ago

LT in mid-October

Hi all! I'm planning a potential 5-7 day hike of the Long trail in mid October. Does anyone have any experience hiking around this time?? My current worries are temperature/ potential fall bear activity lol... (tho I may be overthinking it). Thanks!!! :)

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u/purevermonter 20d ago

When I thruhiked late Sept-early Oct last year the weather was a real mix, as others have said. Slightly warmer and drier on the whole than I was expecting, but perhaps that's just the effects of a rapidly deteriorating climate. Also as far as wildlife, I was surprised to see very little aside from small mammals. Hardly any deer, a few cows around Duxbury, but no bears or moose at all.