October Hike to Dix Mountain - Adirondack Park, New York | Hiking the Adirondack 46 High Peaks
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- 10/13/23 up in the Adirondacks didn’t go exactly as planned with my best hiking buddy Ash being unable to kick a cold that she had all week. Rather than doing a loop together of Nippletop and Dial or Mount Colden with Avalanche Pass, I opted to head for a solo out and back of Dix from Round Pond Trailhead on Route 73.
The temperatures were cool and crisp, the views were fantastic (despite most of The Great Range lingering in the clouds), and I took my time shooting lots of video up to the summit and pictures after that. The trail was quite lovely minus one stretch that had to have gained close to 1000’ in a half mile that was quite wet and slippery. I love New England’s Mountains but holy moly is there something special about the wildness of New York’s High Peaks.
This made for #18 of my Adirondack High Peaks and #74 of my Northeast 111 (115)!
**PLEASE BE CAREFUL TO STAY ON ROCK AND DO NOT SIT OR WALK ON VEGETATION IN ALPINE ZONES WHILE ON SUMMITS**
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro at the Round Pond Trailhead Parking Area off Route 73
00:26 Walking to the Dix Trailhead
00:35 Dix Trailhead & Entrance to the Dix Mountain Wilderness
00:51 Trail Register Sign in
01:25 Hiking by Headlamp & Waiting for Sunrise
02:50 Dawn
03:25 Junction of the Old Dix Trail, Felix Adler Trail, & Dix Trail
04:23 Sunrise
05:56 Lookout to Dix and the Valley Dix Trail Ascends
06:49 "It's starting to turn into a really nice day here..."
07:56 Bouquet River Lean-to
08:48 "Adirondack mud is definitely a thing..."
11:01 Base of an Enormous Slide off Dix
12:02 Crossing the Slide and Making the Final Ascent up Dix
12:55 Up past "The Steepest Bit"
13:45 Junction of Dix Trail & Hunters Pass Trail
14:11 Starting to Get Some Views
14:41 Entering the Alpine Zone
16:00 Approaching the Summit & 360° Views
18:27 The Summit of Dix
18:54 Dix Summit Panorama
19:46 More Views & Exploring the Summit Area
22:25 Outro on the Summit of Dix
Nice work and great hike! Thanks for sharing !!
Thanks!!! It was great to get back to the Adirondacks and really lucked out with the weather, would've been nice to see The Great Range with Marcy and what not but I have 0 complaints :)
Great filming my friend, this looks amazing! 👏👏
Thanks!!! Means a lot coming from you! Your videos always look spectacular!!!
You went up the round pond entrance? We did that loop in july, did the whole traverse of 4 mountains and went down the trail at south dix side which was a brutal trail because it would end and we would have to look for the continuation of it, it messed with us several times and i was getting upset, it's not a well marked trail going down south dix side. Going up dix though was wonderful, we all enjoyed it and it was amazing up there, thanks for letting me revisit the hike from that path again.
Yeap, came in from that side! Very cool, thanks for sharing, sounds like it was memorable to say the least! Really enjoyed Dix, will probably grab the other peaks from the Macomb side when I get back or plan a long out and back day. The traverse idea seems very cool, did you come down from Macomb or the Lilian Brook Trail from South Dix? I know the trails in between on the range are technically herd paths and not necessarily maintained so was curious what it looks like up there. Glad you enjoyed, thanks for taking the time to watch and sharing your experience, love connecting with other hikers!
@@nickhikesandplaysguitar - We went down Boquet Forks Trail on east dix, it wasn't well marked, we almost got lost at a couple areas because the trail would end at a creek, or before rocks and we had to search for the other side and it really messed with us at times and we were so tired as it was to play games like that. We got close to the exit when it got dark and we slept near the creek in a sandy spot. We skipped mccomb because we figured we could just do it separately at another time. The whole traverse was nice though, loved the trail we took going up, Boquet Forks Trail was brutal though but people do go up that way, i wouldn't.
@@nickhikesandplaysguitar - The paths in between the mountains weren't bad, some sketchy parts but im a monkey when climbing so wasn't a big deal for me. The paths were very muddy though, like you need to hop rocks to get to other side. I actually wanted to go up elk lake trailhead but that was another 45 minutes from our campsite.
@@nickhikesandplaysguitar - I need to correct myself after looking at the names of the trails more, we did not go down lilian brook, we went down Boquet Forks Trail off east dix, my bad i should of looked at the map.