Slide Climb in VT?

ScAtTeRbOnE · 06-28-2012, 10:32 PM

I've hiked Dorset Mountain in Vermont before, but never the bushwack over to West Dorset (VT 3500). As I was checking out the Google Map I came across this rubble slide? on the southeast face? of that peak. Looks intersting (slide climbing in VT

), I might get hot sweaty and lost in there this summer then jump in the Dorset Quarry after for a swim if anyone's interested.

dundee · 06-30-2012, 11:23 AM

That slide, (the one on the right, the bigger of the two?) looks like a PITA. Let us know how you made out.

NoTrace · 07-02-2012, 02:47 PM

There's a similar, rubbly slide on the east face of Mt. Equinox. I downclimbed to it several years ago, but found a very steep footwall that I didn't want to descend, so I climbed back up it from the top of the footwall. If you're looking for a sweat-filled challenge, try approaching it from the foot of the mountain, in the vicinity of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, or whatever it's called, that's at the base. It would be an interesting navigational exercise, in any case. If it's convenient, I might join you...

ScAtTeRbOnE · 07-03-2012, 11:12 PM

I hiked it and it turned out great. Small slide with great views. Trip report is at my blog HERE.

06-28-2012, 10:32 PM	#1
ScAtTeRbOnE Balsam Sniffer Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Victory Mills, NY Posts: 655	Slide Climb in VT? I've hiked Dorset Mountain in Vermont before, but never the bushwack over to West Dorset (VT 3500). As I was checking out the Google Map I came across this rubble slide? on the southeast face? of that peak. Looks intersting (slide climbing in VT), I might get hot sweaty and lost in there this summer then jump in the Dorset Quarry after for a swim if anyone's interested. __________________ ADK 46/46 4W CATS 39/39 8W ADK100 63/102 VT35 26/29 FT's 25/29 VT FT's 9/15 "We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh and bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun, a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal." John Muir from My First Summer in The Sierra

07-03-2012, 11:12 PM	#4
ScAtTeRbOnE Balsam Sniffer Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Victory Mills, NY Posts: 655	I hiked it and it turned out great. Small slide with great views. Trip report is at my blog HERE. __________________ ADK 46/46 4W CATS 39/39 8W ADK100 63/102 VT35 26/29 FT's 25/29 VT FT's 9/15 "We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh and bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun, a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal." John Muir from My First Summer in The Sierra

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06-30-2012, 11:23 AM	#2
dundee Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 93	That slide, (the one on the right, the bigger of the two?) looks like a PITA. Let us know how you made out.

07-02-2012, 02:47 PM	#3
NoTrace Running Against TrailRuns Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Mechanicville, NY Posts: 185	There's a similar, rubbly slide on the east face of Mt. Equinox. I downclimbed to it several years ago, but found a very steep footwall that I didn't want to descend, so I climbed back up it from the top of the footwall. If you're looking for a sweat-filled challenge, try approaching it from the foot of the mountain, in the vicinity of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, or whatever it's called, that's at the base. It would be an interesting navigational exercise, in any case. If it's convenient, I might join you...

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