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Today’s Hike 1-24-2009

January 24, 2009

Today we’ll be hiking Balsam Mountain. This is one of the four required “winter peaks” for admission to the Catskill 3500 Club.  The last time we climbed this mountain was December 13th of 2008 (just before winter the ”beginning” of winter on 12/22).     View Larger Map In case you haven’t perused the Hiking Page lately, Scott and I carry [...]

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Today’s Hike

January 4, 2009

Today we’ll be hiking Slide Mountain.  At 4,180 feet, it is the highest mountain in the Catskills.  It’s also the most isolated peak in New York – it’s next higher neighbor is 136 miles away.  You can see the Peakbagger profile for Slide here, and read about it on Wikipedia here.  As always, if you’d [...]

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