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Kyler
10-10-2010, 04:39 PM
I'll keep this one short. I climbed Dix from Rt 73. The trail is dry and in good shape. There are plenty of leaves covering
the trail, but it's not hard to follow.

I went up the slide, which had running water covering maybe 50% at the bottom, but there were enough dry options
to choose from. I went up the thumb (depending on which way you look at it, staying to the left as you go up). Around
60% of the way up, the running water turned to ice, but there was still a lot of dry rock. Around 80% of the way up,
ice was covering almost all of the rock, so I went into the woods and bushwhacked to the trail.

The summit wind made things very cold. There were a handful people on the summit and many more headed up from
Rt 73. As I hiked out, there were a lot of people headed into lean-to/campsites, who were planning on climbing Dix on
Sunday.

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adkdremn
10-10-2010, 04:59 PM
Very nice....love that trip, especially since it was #46 for me!
Great pics!!
NStoker93
10-10-2010, 06:04 PM
awesome, just curious, what's the advantage of going in through rt. 73? Doesn't it make the trip longer, or is that just if you do all 5 of them?
adkdremn
10-10-2010, 07:00 PM
Not really any advantage from going in from 73 unless you're just planning for Dix. All 5 are doable from 73, but it's a lot longer of a trip from there as opposed to doing all 5 from Elk Lake.
Kyler
10-10-2010, 07:52 PM
awesome, just curious, what's the advantage of going in through rt. 73? Doesn't it make the trip longer, or is that just if you do all 5 of them?

There's probably not any advantage to going in from Rt 73. The Elk Lake trail-head is closed during hunting season though.
BillB
10-10-2010, 10:08 PM
Very nice pics. Yes, very windy, wasn't it? Wonderful views from Dix.
Kyler
10-11-2010, 05:10 PM
Very nice pics. Yes, very windy, wasn't it? Wonderful views from Dix.

Thanks. Once you were out of the wind, the sun was great. I stopped on the slide on the way down and sat in the sun for a while. It felt like a mid-summer day.