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lides & Bushwhacks (updated 10/19/11)
Big Slide area
Cascade & Porter area
Cliff & Redfield
- Cliff Slide/ Redfield Bushwhack 6/9-6/10/07 - ID PIC
- Redfield via Bushwhack from Allen to Redfield Slide 5/19/09
Colden
- Colden: A Traverse of the Trap Dike & S.E. 1990's Slide 10/24/05, 8/27/07, 7/3/08, 09, 10 - ID PICS: Trap Dike 90's SE
- Colden Trap Dike, (St. Lawrence University Hill News) & Fatality (New Slide from Tropical Storm Irene) 10/1/11
- Colden: Avalanche Pass Slide 9/20/08 ID PIC
- Colden: South Slide, False Summit Col (NW Drainage) Slides, Av.Pass "Skinny" Slide NEW 2011
Colvin/Blake - Dial/Nippletop Ridge
- Slides: (Blake & Nippletop) with Colvin, Blake, S. Blake, Nippletop, Dial, Bear Den, Noonmark Shoulder 9/29/07 -
ID PICS: Blake Nippletop
Dix Range
Giant & Rocky Peak Ridge
- Eagle Slide: 3rd Feather - ID PIC
- East Face Slide Set 8/21-22/10
- Rocky Peak Ridge Bushwhack with Giant via Trail
- Eagle Slide: 2rd Feather with RPR, Rocky Peak, Bald Peak & Back Again 10/6/08
- NE Slide, East Face, Dipper, Finger & Eagle 6/4/2011
- West Face Slides (Bottle, Diagonal, Question Mark, Tulip) 6/15/10 ID PICS: Bottle, Diagonal, Question Mark, Tulip
Great Range
- "Scaling Slides: Bushwhacking the Great Range the Hard Way" as seen in Adirondack Life Magazine's 2011 Annual Guide to the Great Outdoors. ID PIC: Armstrong, LWJ Bennies Brk. (pre 2011), UWJ N,
- Basin Brook NE Slide and NW Summit Bushwhack 8/6/10
- Basin's East Face 9/6/09 ID PIC
- Basin's NE Shoulder Slide (New from Tropical Storm Irene) 9/18/2011
- Gothics' North Face Circumnavigation 9/5/09
- Gothics' True North Slide / Armstrong col Slide 8/7/09 ID PIC: True North
- Gothics' Winter Bushwhack via True North Slide 12/27/11
- Haystack's East Johanssen Face (Portions Slide) 8/6/10
- Lower Wolf Jaw's Bennies Brook and NW Slide (New from Tropical Storm Irene) 9/17/2011
- Lower WJ, Upper WJ, Armstrong, Gothics, Saddleback, Basin, Haystack & Marcy 8/12/06
- Lower Great Range Slide/Ledge Bushwhack: LWJ, UWJ & Armstrong 8/31/08
- Marcy's S (Phelps) Slide Set 8/7/10
- Marcy's SE Slide from Panther Gorge *** 8/9/09 ID PIC
- Saddleback's NE Slide 8/8/09 ID PIC
- Saddleback South Slide 9/5/09 ID PIC
- Upper Wolfjaw & Gothics: UWJ Sabre Tooth East, West & White & Gothics' Rainbow New 8/20/2011
- Upper Wolfjaw NW Ridge Slides (Western-most Enlargements and NEW Central Slide) New 9/17/2011
MacIntyre Range: Algonquin, Wright, Iroquois & Boundary
- Algonquin's SE (aka Elevator Shaft or Zero) Slide & S (aka Bear Paw or Fuzzy) Slide 8/8/10
- Algonquin: Winter Bushwhack of the NE Face & Slide 12/24/11
- Marshall via Herbert Brook & Iroquois Whack from Cold Brook Pass 7/3/08
- Wright Slide Bushwhack 9/19/04
- *Wright Slide 8/2/08: ID PIC Plane Wreckage Pics
In the summer of 2008, I had the honor of taking my Pastor (Derek Spain: Lake Placid Baptist Church) and his brother-in-law, Rob out on a hike. He subsequently alluded to the bushwhack in a sermon to God’s Glory. Click here to listen to the excerpt or listen to the full sermon.
Santanoni & Seward Ranges
- Santononi Twin Slide Pics ID PIC
- Couchsachraga Bushwhack to Emmons, Donaldson & Seward 5/23/09 Route (Featured in Peeks Magazine Spring 2010)
- Santononi: Ermine Brook Slide - Twin Slide Traverse 7/23/2011 (with Mt. Adams on 7/22/11)
Sentinel Range
- Kilburn Slide 8/13/06
- South Notch 9/9/06
- Stewart Bushwhack 6/10/05
Street & Nye
- Nye, Street Bushwhack to Northville Placid Trail/Duck Hole & Indian Pass
- Nye to Wanika Falls Bushwhack 8/23/08
Tropical Storm Irene-Related Slide Catalog
Whiteface
- Whiteface Ski Slide #1 Pics ID PIC
- Whiteface (Placid Slide)
- Whiteface Ski Slide #4 8/24/08
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lide Resume
*Rating .......................................Slide............................................................ Times Explored ~ Album
Algonquin Southeast (aka Elevator Shaft or Zero) Slide 1 ~ ALBUM- Algonquin South (aka Bear Paw or Fuzzy) Slide 1 ~ ALBUM
- Armstrong East Slides/Ledges 1 ~
- Basin Brook (NE Slide from NW summit) Slide 1 ~ ALBUM
- Basin East Face Slides 1 ~
- Basin NW/N Ridge Slides (4 or 5 slides both expanded and NEW from Irene 2011) 1 ~
- Basin False Summit Slide E/SE (New Face from Irene) 1 ~
- Blake Slide 1 ~
- Brothers' Slide NE 1 ~
- Cascade "T" Slide (Pre-2011 Irene...small with horizontal and vertical section) 3 ~
- Cliff Slide 1 ~
- Colden 1990 (SE) Slide 3 ~
- Colden NE False Summit Col Slide (Northern) 1 ~
- Colden NE False Summit Col Slide (Southern) 1 ~
- Colden Southernmost Western Slide 1 ~
- Colden Avalanche Pass Slide 2 ~
- Colden Avalanche Pass Slide (Skinny Leg) 1 ~
- Colden Slide (Pre-2011 Slide From Trap Dike) 6 ~
- Colden Slide (2011 Irene Exit From Trap Dike) 1 ~
- Colden Trap Dyke (ok not a slide in the traditional sense...but) 7 ~
- Dix Hunters Pass Slide 1 ~
- Dix Hydra (V) Slide 1 ~
- Dix North Slide 1 (aka thumb) 1 ~ ALBUM
Note: Due to the unique character of each N. Face Slide, I consider 1-9 unique (unique trigger points) - Dix North Slide 2 (aka index) 1 ~ ALBUM
- Dix North Slide 3 (aka middle) 1 ~ ALBUM
- Dix North Slide 4 (remnant slide) 1 ~ ALBUM
- Dix North Slide 5 1 ~ ALBUM
- Dix North Slide 6 (aka ring) 1 ~ ALBUM
- Dix North Slide 7 1 ~ ALBUM
- Dix North Slide 8 1 ~ ALBUM
- Dix North Slide 9 (aka pinky) 1 ~ ALBUM
- Emmon's Slide 1 ~
- Giant East Face Slide (2 Routes) 2 ~ ALB1, ALBUM2
- Giant West Face Slide: Eagle Slide (various exits) 3 ~ ALBUM
- Giant West Face Slide: Bottle 1 ~
- Giant West Face Slide: Diagonal 1 ~
- Giant West Face Slide: Dipper 1 ~ ALBUM
- Giant West Face Slide: Finger 1 ~ ALBUM
- Giant West Face Slide: Question Mark 1 ~
- Giant West Face Slide: Tulip 1 ~
- Giant Northeast Slides (2 Tributaries) 1 ~ ALBUM
- Gothics True North Slide (Ribbon) 2 ~
- Gothics True North Slide (branch to col) 1 ~
- Gothics Northwest Face (A Circumnavigation) 1 ~
- Gothics East Face Rainbow Slide 1 ~
- Haystack Johanssen Face [Portions Slide(s)] 1 ~ ALBUM
- Kilburn Slide 2 ~
- Lower Wolfjaw - Bennie's Brook (Root Canal) Slide - Old Central Tributary 1 ~
- Lower Wolfjaw - Bennie's Brook (Root Canal) Slide - NEW 2011 Irene South Tributary 1 ~
- Lower Wolfjaw - NW Slide (2011 Irene related slide/2 Tributaries) 1 ~
- Macomb Slide (Traditional to summit) 1 ~
- Marcy East Face Slide from Panther Gorge 1 ~
- Marcy South (aka Phelps) Slide Set 1 ~ ALBUM
- Nippletop Slide 1 ~
- Redfield Slide 2 ~
- Rocky Peak Ridge Rubble Slides (2 Slides) 1 ~
- Santononi Ermine Brook Slide 1 ~
- Santononi Twin Slide (Main Stem of 2 tributaries) 2 ~
- Santononi Twin Slide (SW Tributary) 1 ~
- Santononi Twin Slide (NE Tributary) 1 ~
- Saddleback Northeast Slide (Pre-2011 Irene) 1 ~
- Saddleback South Slide 2 ~
- Upper Wolfjaw North Slide on NW Ridge (leads to summit) 1 ~
- Upper Wolfjaw North Slide on NW Ridge (middle New Irene 2011 Short Slide) 1 ~
- Upper Wolfjaw North Slide on NW Ridge (western slide with dyke dividing slabs) 1 ~
- Upper Wolfjaw Northeastern Ridge "Sabre Tooth East" Slide 1 ~
- Upper Wolfjaw Northeastern Ridge "Sabre Tooth West" Slide 1 ~
- Upper Wolfjaw White Slide 1 ~
- Wright Slide "Left Wing" 1 ~
- Whiteface South (Lake Placid) Slide 1 ~
- Whiteface Ski Slides: Slide 1 1 ~
- Whiteface Ski Slides: Slide 4 1 ~
* Rating based on slide features and slab quality...and is purely subjective!
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