I've been spending a lot of time hiking in the Catskills prepping for the LT, and I'm wondering how the two compare in terms of difficulty, terrain, etc. I haven't done Devil's Path yet but I finished the Escarpment Trail, Slide-Cornell-Wittenberg (with Phoenicia East to make a loop), and now Black Dome Mountain trail. Probably the toughest hiking I've done so far, with most peaks around 3900' and rock scrambles everywhere. Could one expect to hike at roughly the same pace in both places, or is the northern LT going to be considerably tougher?

I did Camel's Hump as a dayhike a few years ago and don't remember it being as rocky as the Catskills, but I might be wrong.