FKT: Keith Nadeau - Equinox Mountain (VT) - 2026-04-25

What a mountain! I moved to VT last year and have been wanting to come try this since. I planned to go and try for the FKT, and if it didn't go well, I would just adjust to a recon mission to go back for another attempt. After the first 2 miles I knew I was a bit faster than the time, so I pushed a good effort for the rest! That second mile is relentless and SO steep. With that said, I really liked how runnable the terrain is considering the steepness of the trail. After reaching the top and lap around the summit building, I started to move down. I moved quickly but also had a safety speed in mind that I didn't push past. With some races coming up for me soon I didn't want to risk an injury flying too fast on the technical / steep sections. Really fun route and super challenging! I started and finished at the red gate right at the parking lot. The GPX file has this route starting a short bit up the trail from the parking lot where there are red posts on the sides from what looks like where another red gate used to be. Now it is just the red posts, and they are not super obvious to see at first. The red gate at the parking lot however is an actual red gate so I assumed it was supposed to start and finish there. It would be good to either make note that it starts up trail at those old posts or adjust it to be starting at the very obvious red gate from parking lot for future attempts. Starting at the parking lot gates doesn't add too much time, but when racing for fast times any seconds extra are precious! The time from this effort is from parking lot to parking lot at the red gate.