• Fitness,  Hiking,  Snowshoeing,  Trip Report

    Hiking Slide Mountain – Catskills

    Today Chris and I went for a hike! After two winter hikes in the Adirondacks, I wanted to change it up a bit. We took our snowshoes down to the Catskills to hike Slide Mountain, the highest Catskill peak at 4,180 feet of elevation. There are two ways to get to the summit of Slide. We took the longer route, the loop–we started from the parking lot and hiked to the where the trail splits and took the Curtis-Ormsbee trail which is the longer way up. It was marked with yellow trail markers.   After about two miles, the trail split again, the red markers began and we hiked to…