What slides have you done?

[Neil]

With the recent postings on slide climbing I racked my brain to remember which slides I have done.

In no particular order:


Zipper
Great
Beckhorn
Nye
Kilburn
Bottle (Giant)
Trap Dyke
Colden NE
Snowy
Redfield
Whiteface ski slide
Lake Placid (WF)
Wright airplane slide
Nippletop
Blake
Bennies Brook
Saddleback (South slide, not on Qam1's list (http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/qam1/slides.htm))
Macomb
Erminebrook
Twin (Santanoni)
Scooter (Seward)


Plus a few other lesser slides: Allen, Seymour, Jay

Not done yet but high on the list:
True North (Gothics)
Saber tooth
"New" slide on Wolf Jaw
Diagonal
Finger
Tulip
Eagle
Many on Dix

How about you?

[masshysteria]

Other than the slides that are incorporated as 'standard routes' to the 46; i.e. Macomb, Seymour and Allen?

True North on Gothics,
2 trips to the Basin Amp, even though it isn't a climbable slide, it required slide climbing technique to reach it :eek:
Great Slide
Macomb southwest slide
'Wrong Way Slide' on Basin
Part of the Bat slide on Giant
Hopper slide and Indian slide on Greylock (Berkshires)

Neil, DO the True North! Way cool, when you shimmy over to the edge of the Gothics North Face! :tup::tup:

http://picasaweb.google.com/masshysteria1958/HikeUpTrueNorthSlideOnGothics#

[Dunbar]

Trap Dike
Left Wing Slide
Macomb North Fork (old and new)
Ermine Brook
Twin (Santanoni)

Uhm.....hopefully adding a few more this week

[mirabela]

That's a formidable list, Neil.

East Dix (great slide)
Macomb
Dix (1993, the one to climber's right)
Emmons
Colden dike->slide
Nippletop ... sorta, but not exactly!
One on Giant to climber's R of Tulip -- not sure the name

Seems like there might have been one or two others in the 90's but I can't remember what

[WalksWithBlackflies]

D'oh! You got me by one:

1. "V" slide on Dix
2. Hunters Slide on Dix
3. North Slide on Dix
4. Macomb
5. Great Slide
6. Nippletop
7. Blake
8. Redfield
9. Cliff
10. Trap Dike
11. Colden SE Slide
12. Emmons
13. Twin
14. Eagle
15. Placid Slide
16. Ski Slide #1
17. Ski Slide #2
18. Ski Slide #3
19. Ski Slide #4
20. Snowy

Lesser slides:
Allen
Seymour

[Mark Schaefer]

I have only climbed a handful of the easy and more common slides. One oddball slide that I climbed in 1976 (and that has not been mentioned yet) is the 1947 slide on Macomb. At that time it was the normal route to Macomb as the 1978 slide did not yet exist. It is a bit steeper at the top than the 1978 slide and entailed a longer ridge top hike to the summit. I expect that the old herd path along the south ridge to the summit is no longer so well trod as it was prior to 1978. The 1947 slide is included on Qam1's slide list.

[Neil]

D'oh! You got me by one:
Now I'm ahead of you by 4 :D. That is, if you count going down the Finger slide.

[WalksWithBlackflies]

Oh yeah, well, I've done 6 of 'em twice!!! :)

<---- I knew I should have attempted Big Slide!

I think you should get double-points for descents, as they seem to be twice as hard and half as fun as ascents.

BTW, with a newborn at home, I don't think this will be much of a competition for awhile. I'll post info/photos soon.

[Dunbar]

Trap Dike
Left Wing Slide
Macomb North Fork (old and new)
Ermine Brook
Twin (Santanoni)

Uhm.....hopefully adding a few more this week

Update to add:

Finger
Diagonal
Eagle
Zipper
Great Slide

[Neil]

Steve, you've done 7 slides in 5 days. Keep that up and you'll have 500 slides in a year.

[Dunbar]

Trap Dike
Left Wing Slide
Macomb North Fork (old and new)
Ermine Brook
Twin (Santanoni)

Uhm.....hopefully adding a few more this week

Update to add:

Finger
Diagonal
Eagle
Zipper
Great Slide

And one final update to add:

Nippletop

[Neil]

And one final update to add:

Nippletop

Somebody. Stop him! He's a runaway slide-ist.

[1ADAM12]

Trap Dike and slide to summit, Coldens SE Slide, and Macomb :rolleyes:

[Jim C]

Trap Dike and slide to summit, Coldens SE Slide, and Macomb :rolleyes:

Hey, me too :D

[mudrat]

Slide Name (# times)

Algonquin Southeast (aka Elevator Shaft or Zero) Slide
Algonquin South (aka Bear Paw or Fuzzy) Slide
Allen (on the trail so i don't really count it)
Armstrong East Slides/Ledges
Basin Brook (NE Slide from NW summit) Slide
Basin East Face Slides
Blake Slide
Cliff Slide
Colden 1990 (SE) Slide
Colden Avalanche Pass Slide
Colden Slide (From Trap Dike)
Colden Trap Dike
Dix Hunters Pass Slide
Dix Hydra (V) Slide
Dix North Slide 1 (aka thumb) Note: Due due unique character of each of the North Face Slides, I'm considering 1-9 unique slides (unique trigger points)
Dix North Slide 2 (aka index)
Dix North Slide 3 (aka middle)
Dix North Slide 4 (remnant slide)
Dix North Slide 5
Dix North Slide 6 (aka ring)
Dix North Slide 7
Dix North Slide 8
Dix North Slide 9 (aka pinky)
Emmon's Slide
Giant East Face Slide (2 Routes)
Giant West Face Slides: Eagle Slide (various exits)
.......................................Bottle
.......................................Diagonal
.......................................Question Mark

.......................................Tulip
Gothics True North Slide (Ribbon)
Gothics True North Slide (branch to col)
Gothics Northwest Face (A Circumnavigation)
Haystack Johanssen Face [Portions Slide(s)]
Kilburn Slide
Lower Wolfjaw - Bennie's Brook (Root Canal) Slide
Macomb Slide
Marcy East Face Slide from Panther Gorge
Marcy South (aka Phelps) Slide Set
Nippletop Slide
Redfield Slide
Santononi Twin Slide
Saddleback Northeast Slide
Saddleback South Slide
Upper Wolfjaw North Slide
Wright Slide
Whiteface Lake Placid Slide
Whiteface Ski Slides: Slide 1,
.............................Slide 4

(Lesser Slides)
Cascade
Rocky Peak Ridge Rubble Slides (2)


Can I count the Slide on Pitchoff?>....Hey, Barb McMartin said it counts :D

[billandjudy]

OK.... for a slide novice (MacComb and Ermine Brook) How about a list of 5 that would make good training climbs for someone (NOT Judy) interested in doing harder ones eventually:tup:

[tcd]

I've only climbed a few:

Colden Trap Dike
Colden SE (1990)
Eagle
Macomb
Nippletop
Dix beckhorn

I like recommending the Colden SE slide. It starts and finishes very close to trails; most of it is easy, and while it's steep at the top, the rock has excellent friction.

TCD

[Teleskier]

Hmmm... guess more than I thought. Here are mine, over the years:

East Dix - Great slide
Dix - SW slide, can't remember which fork
Kilburn - both the long one on the shoulder and the little rubble slide up high on the bump S of the summit
Giant - Eagle
Colden - NE and Trap Dyke
Whiteface - ski slide (main) and Lake Placid
Wright - airplane slide
Nippletop
LWJ - Bennies Brook, right fork
Macomb - both old rubble slide and the one directly to the summit
Santanoni - Ermine Brook
Gothics - True North
Cliff - from Upper Twin Brook

I think that's it!

[mudrat]

How about a list of 5 that would make good training climbs for someone (NOT Judy) interested in doing harder ones eventually:tup:

IMO:
1 Bennies Brook: about 45 from garden off southside trail. Very easy to follow.
2 Colden SE
3 Kilburn: Interesting and not a hard grade. Trail starts near Monument falls on rte 86.
4. True North: On Gothics. Starts 10 min from Orebed L2. Not very exposed, but different and easy to follow.
5. Perhaps Wright Slide on the Algonquin side, though it's an hour's whack from the trail. The slide itself is fairly low-key and very interesting.

[WalksWithBlackflies]

Bill - I'll give you seven:

1) Whiteface Ski Slide
2) Bennies Brook
3) Dix North Slide
4) Nippletop
5) Kilburn
6) Snowy
7) Colden SE slide, but only if you're comfortable with exposure. Although the rock is absolutely wonderful, it's mighty steep at the top.

Each have relatively easy approaches.

[mudrat]

1) Whiteface Ski Slide


I was a novice on Whiteface Ski Slide and recall having to endure 1000' of "Gecko" jibes because I belly crawled most of it because of the grade and exposure. :razz:

[Skyclimber]

1. Bennie Brook Slide of Lower Wolf {1}
2. North Slide of Dix from Hunter's Pass {1}
3. Ermine Slide of Santanoni {2}
4. Wright Slide {3}
5. Ski Center Slide of Whiteface {2}
6. Lake Placid Slide of Whiteface {3}
7. Felspar 1990 Slide of Colden {6}
8. Trap Dike of Colden {6}
7. Averyville Slide of Nye {1}
8. Slide on Dix from St. Huberts {1}
9. Nippletop Slide {1}
10. Eagle Slide of Giant {1}
11. Great Slide of East Dix {2}
12. Kilburn Slide {1}
13. Abol Slide of Katahdin {3}
14. Macomb Slide {19}