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| Tahawus | Slide Mountain  Date Climbed: Nov 18, 2006 | |
| Climbed via the Curtis-Ormsbee Trail from Winnisook. My first time in the Catskills. An easy hike up a Slide's gentle western slope. The summit was fogged in and there was still some early morning rhyme ice trees. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2008 10:51 am | ||
| Sam Page | Sheet of ice Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2005 | |
| I think I'm right about the date. The trail was a solid sheet of ice. | |
| Posted Apr 21, 2008 10:28 pm | ||
| subflood | Wittenberg-Cornell-Slide Date Climbed: Jan 8, 2008 | |
| Amazing views on the trail. The climb up to slide was steep, snowy and icy. Great adventure. | |
| Posted Jan 14, 2008 9:35 pm | ||
| Lips74 | White Christmas Date Climbed: Dec 25, 2007 | |
| Climbed the easy side Christmas Day 2007. About 3 inches of snow at the base increased to 8 inches on the summit. Clouds above 3500 feet obscured any view. Still a nice day to be hiking and to break out the snowshoes. | |
| Posted Dec 25, 2007 10:33 pm | ||
| Mayhey Kid | Super Climb Date Climbed: Feb 3, 2007 | |
| Fun time, included Cornell.Some great scrambles between Slide and Cornell. 10F with winds 15-20mph approx. 10-12 inches of snow on summit. | |
| Posted Dec 23, 2007 6:57 pm | ||
| AMOlivari | Burroughs Trail Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2007 | |
| Wittenberg, Cornell & Slide in one day. Beautiful day at the summit. | |
| Posted Nov 27, 2007 4:09 pm | ||
| tombcronin | Climbed day after married Date Climbed: Aug 16, 1983 | |
| Crisp clear day, memorable | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2007 3:05 pm | ||
| POLUKO | From the East Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2007 | |
| Got up early and did the out-n-back ascent of Berg, Cornell, and Slide on the red trail. Very fun indeed. | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2007 7:43 pm | ||
| TLP | some fun in the catskills Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2007 | |
| I took the LONG route to Slide over Wittenberg and Cornell, and I would say you do the same! Then made a loop and returned to Woodland Valley through a short cut and the Phoenicia-East Branch Trail | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2007 10:32 am | ||
| Florida Frank | winter camping Date Climbed: Feb 15, 1978 | |
| A group of us snowshoed up the trail from the west. Spent the night on the summit. It was one of my coldest nights out ever. The air temp. that night was about -20F and the wind was blowing. | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2007 4:47 pm | ||
| cbucker | The Loop Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2005 | |
| Traversed the Borroughs range loop. Though no treeline the veiws were amazing, great climb. | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2007 3:58 pm | ||
| Like2Hike | ASPIRING 3500' CLUB Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2001 | |
| NEXT!!! | |
| Posted Jan 6, 2007 7:22 pm | ||
| VaughnH | Porcupine on Slide Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2001 | |
| While looping part of Slide Mountain Wilderness Area via Phoenicia-East Branch and Wittenberg-Cornell-Slide trails, starting from West Branch Road Trail head, saw my first porcupine in the wild going down Slide towards Cornell. Had a Terrier and Malamute along who were very interested in it also. | |
| Posted Dec 30, 2006 5:27 am | ||
| rasgoat | loop hike | |
| Great as a loop hike (approx 16 miles) from woodland valley over whittenberg, cornell, and yes slide, the push to the summit is steep and fun and dumps you onto the summit! | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2006 11:25 pm | ||
| royswkr | Short way from W Date Climbed: Feb 27, 1989 | |
| Trail well packed | ||
| Posted Jul 26, 2006 11:18 pm | ||
| vanny37 | Climbed from West Side | |
| Nice, easy hike. Good number of people on the mountain/in the area for the winter. | |
| Posted Mar 11, 2006 6:23 pm | ||
| sprosseda | Route Climbed: standard trail Date Climbed: September 1995 | |
| Highest of the Catskills, alright. My favorite Catskill hike is going up Wittenberg, over to Cornell, and up Slide. Great way to do it. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2006 12:21 pm | ||
| FatalRook | Route Climbed: Phoenicia->Curtis-Ormsbee->Cornell Wittenberg Date Climbed: December 30th, 2005 | |
| Trail in very good shape...packed down, but some ice during the late afternoon. Curtis-Ormsbee trail less packed down than others. Summit has about 7 in. of snow where not packed down, but most of it is packed. Cornell-Wittenberg from the east looked in poor condition with deep snow from the summit. Great hike, and beautiful in winter. | ||
| Posted Dec 30, 2005 10:45 pm | ||
| lilmountaingirl | Route Climbed: Wittenburg-Cornell-Slide Loop Date Climbed: 8/27/05 | |
| A small group of us did the WCS Loop over the weekend. I agree with another poster that Wittenburg has the best views! Stayed at Giant Ledge for the night and bailed on hiking Panther due to t-storms. Great loop and my first time in the Catskills. | |
| Posted Sep 21, 2005 3:58 pm | ||
| woodstrider | Route Climbed: Range Trail from Woodland Valley Date Climbed: 7/2/95 and 12/31/95 | |
| My first backpack! My brother and I start at Woodland Valley and climb Wittenberg, Cornell and then Slide in one day on a sweltering 4th of July weekend. We are sore, exhausted and ready to drop from the 95+ degree temperatures. My brother vows never again and I return two weeks later. My kind of fun. In the winter it just gets better and the black flies are not so bad then. Still plenty of people on top at any time of the year. I love to use the little used 1880's era trail from near Winnisook to get to the summit of this very visited peak. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2005 2:28 pm | ||
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