Guess the trail

[highpeaksdrifter]

Just to try to keep things going in here I thought I'd give this a try.

I went for a hike in the ADKs on Tuesday, what trail did I take these pixs on. The mountaineers in here will probably get it right away.

http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/album08/100_1689.thumb.jpg http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/album08/100_1690.thumb.jpg http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/album08/100_1697_001.thumb.jpg

[Skier 4 Life]

I know where it is, but I can't say, cus you told me already. Let someone else try. Good luck guessing. :)

[Phineas]

middle pic reminds me of wright peak ski trail...

[highpeaksdrifter]

middle pic reminds me of wright peak ski trail...

Nope, but thanks for playing.

Clue:It is a trail up one of the high peaks. If I posted a picture from the summit you'd get it right away, but my batteries ran out and I forgot to bring an extra battery pack.

middle pic reminds me of wright peak ski trail...

Nope, but thanks for playing.

Clue:It is a trail up one of the high peaks. If I posted a picture from the summit you'd get it right away, but my batteries ran out and I forgot to bring an extra battery pack.
It looks icy. Get your wife a pair of poles to walk with. Looks like you almost need crampons in some areas.
Another Clue: It is the shortes trail to a high peak.

[takeahike46er]

Cascade? I haven't climbed it since I was a kid so the pics don't help me much.

[freeheelwilly]

gotta be cascade (or giant)

[takeahike46er]

Name the mountain and the slide in the photo below.


http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/not-whiteface/467587682HGuYMh_ph.jpg

[oneotwoandcounting]

It’s Cascade if my,” Guide to Adirondack Trails: High Peaks Region,” is correct. It’s a great hike.

The trail book lists it as,” the easiest of all 4000-ft. peaks to ascend.” I have climbed it a few times and as is the case of all the high peaks (for me) there are parts of it that are a struggle. It does offer a bald summit and great views making the hike worth any struggle to the summit.

[oneotwoandcounting]

Whoops, I was refering to HPD's post.

[oneotwoandcounting]

Whoops again, meant reffering.

[highpeaksdrifter]

middle pic reminds me of wright peak ski trail...

Nope, but thanks for playing.

Clue:It is a trail up one of the high peaks. If I posted a picture from the summit you'd get it right away, but my batteries ran out and I forgot to bring an extra battery pack.
It looks icy. Get your wife a pair of poles to walk with. Looks like you almost need crampons in some areas.
Another Clue: It is the shortes trail to a high peak.

It was really icey, but she did have poles.

http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/album08/100_1693.thumb.jpg

BTW - Did anybody tell you to give a clue to the game I started. That indiscretion will cost you 2 beers.

[oneotwoandcounting]

Whoops again, meant referring. Sorry about this. I am suffering from some double vision, detracted retina surgery 7 weeks ago and I can't spell or type. Other than that everything is fine.

[highpeaksdrifter]

It’s Cascade if my,” Guide to Adirondack Trails: High Peaks Region,” is correct. It’s a great hike.

The trail book lists it as,” the easiest of all 4000-ft. peaks to ascend.” I have climbed it a few times and as is the case of all the high peaks (for me) there are parts of it that are a struggle. It does offer a bald summit and great views making the hike worth any struggle to the summit.

Yep WFwilly's easy clue gave it away. :evil: It is a beautiful view, we'll do it again when the ice is gone and spend alot more time on the summit taking in the view.

[oneotwoandcounting]

Hi takeahike46er,

I’m guessing it’s the trail to Algonquin peak from Heart Lake. If so I don’t know the slide but it looks like the cascade at the 2.4 mile point called the waterfall in the Adirondack trail book.

[takeahike46er]

Nope.

Hint:
This slide is popular with skiers.

Additional photo (from Adirondack Explorer-- Mark Meschineli)

http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/not-whiteface/ajdjsh.jpg

[highpeaksdrifter]

Nope.

Hint:
This slide is popular with skiers.

Additional photo (from Adirondack Explorer-- Mark Meschineli)

http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/not-whiteface/ajdjsh.jpg

Colden, the south side. Great picture BTW.

[takeahike46er]

Correct!

[Tsavolion]

Cascade? I haven't climbed it since I was a kid so the pics don't help me much.

me neither, that was my first highpeaks hike. cascade and porter. i didnt know it was the shortest route though, so willy gave it away.

[freeheelwilly]

Cascade? I haven't climbed it since I was a kid so the pics don't help me much.

me neither, that was my first highpeaks hike. cascade and porter. i didnt know it was the shortest route though, so willy gave it away.

I'm Willy. I'M Willy!! Dang! It doesn't take long to get pushed aside for the new guy around here. This place isn't big enough for two Willys.

[freeheelwilly]

Nope.

Hint:
This slide is popular with skiers.

Additional photo (from Adirondack Explorer-- Mark Meschineli)

http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/not-whiteface/ajdjsh.jpg

Colden, the south side. Great picture BTW.

I skied that about fifteen years ago. Marcy's so close from there it looks like you could hit with a snowball.

[highpeaksdrifter]

I'm Willy. I'M Willy!! Dang! It doesn't take long to get pushed aside for the new guy around here. This place isn't big enough for two Willys.

:lol: That's funny. You guys need to have some kinda duel or something to hash it out.

[Son of Drifter]

I'm Willy. I'M Willy!! Dang! It doesn't take long to get pushed aside for the new guy around here. This place isn't big enough for two Willys.[/quote]

You'll always be The Willy FH. :twisted:

[Son of Drifter]

I'm Willy. I'M Willy!! Dang! It doesn't take long to get pushed aside for the new guy around here. This place isn't big enough for two Willys.

:lol: That's funny. You guys need to have some kinda duel or something to hash it out.

A ski off in Nov next year or maybe a drink off. Those are my ideas for a duel. :twisted:

[freeheelwilly]

I'm Willy. I'M Willy!! Dang! It doesn't take long to get pushed aside for the new guy around here. This place isn't big enough for two Willys.

:lol: That's funny. You guys need to have some kinda duel or something to hash it out.

A ski off in Nov next year or maybe a drink off. Those are my ideas for a duel. :twisted:

Both. If I can't whoop him one way, I'll get him in another.

[Tsavolion]

Cascade? I haven't climbed it since I was a kid so the pics don't help me much.

me neither, that was my first highpeaks hike. cascade and porter. i didnt know it was the shortest route though, so willy gave it away.

I'm Willy. I'M Willy!! Dang! It doesn't take long to get pushed aside for the new guy around here. This place isn't big enough for two Willys.

i actually thought you were the one that gave the clue away. i honestly wasnt really reading the whole thread very carefully and i got up at 5:00 today. my eyes arent working well. you are always a woman, i mean willy, to me!

[Faceplant]

Is that how many ways you can spell referring :wink:

How's the knee?

[Phineas]

Name the mountain and the slide in the photo below.


http://forums.skiadk.com/albums/not-whiteface/467587682HGuYMh_ph.jpg

slide to LP

[takeahike46er]

That photo is also of the 1990 Slide on Colden, the same one being skied in the other photograph. Its a fun slide to climb because it is so lengthy and it varies in pitch considerably. Not to mention, it literally intersects the Feldspar trail so there is no chance of missing it. I highly recommend it.

[AdironRider]

Is the snow usually of good quality on that bad boy? Or is it one of those slides like the ones at Whiteface which is pretty much icefall unless its spring?

[takeahike46er]

I haven't skied it or been up it in the winter (I'd like to, though).

Colden definitely receives more snow than Whiteface because it is centrally locatated in the High Peaks region. When Whiteface receives a few inches of lake effect, Colden gets 6-12. With that said, coverage is probably better.

Icefalls might be an issue half-way up the slide where there is a 15 ft. waterfall. Of course, it could be completely covered in winter making for a sweet drop.

My biggest concern would be triggering an avalanche on the headwall. It is a consistent 45*. The rest of the slide is a moderate to mild pitch and would be a blast to ski.

[takeahike46er]

Here are more pictures I took of the slide this fall. (http://community.webshots.com/slideshow?ID=467557016&key=LNRlXv)

[freeheelwilly]

Here are more pictures I took of the slide this fall. (http://community.webshots.com/slideshow?ID=467557016&key=LNRlXv)

I skied it in its infancy - January 1992. And not from the top - about half way up. The snow was excellent (it always is back there it seems) but my "skills" were marginal. I think I was on borrowed tele skis and I KNOW I was in leather boots. Yuck.

Beautiful pix btw. That one lookin' down into avy lake gave me vertigo.

[Faceplant]

A duel to find out who is the better swordsman. That's something the ladies should decide. :wink:

[Lbtchnlgs]

how long is the round trip of mt colden? it looks like an awesome hike.

could i have some directions to the trail?

[freeheelwilly]

how long is the round trip of mt colden? it looks like an awesome hike.

could i have some directions to the trail?

Just traced it out on Topo. If you go through Avalanche Pass (and you should) down to lake colden over avalanche lake and up the opalescent to get to the backside of Colden (where that slide is) it's about 9 miles (just to the slide). Round trip, if you keep going when you're done with the slide, out and around Mt Colden via Lake Arnold: about 14 miles. So, a little math tells me that you could forgo the hike up avy pass and down to lake colden and the RT would be only 10 miles. But you'd miss some of the most spectacular views to be had in the ADKs and the ski down avy pass is a friggin' hoot. There's a bonafide ski trail through there and it's a blast. The snow is consistently good too. The ski across a frozen avy lake, which awaits once you go through avy pass, will not be forgotten. You're at the bottom of a knife-like chasm with 1000's of feet of granite rising up on both sides of you. Breathtaking the first time you see it. (Actually every time for me)

Go in at heart lake/adirondack loj. You can park right there. follow signs from there. it's easy: Heart lake to marcy dam to avalanche camp up through avalanche pass to avalanche lake to lake colden up the opalescent (there's a trail) to the trail to lake arnold. On your way to lake arnold you'll pass the slide on your left. When you're done skiin' the slide just keep going down the trail in the direction you had been travelling. that'll take you back to avalanche camp and now you're just backtracking on the same trail you used to get in. At that point you will have done a complete circumnavigation of Mt. Colden - very cool. Don't let the distance fool ya'. It's only 14 miles but I'd get an alpine start - especially if you're gonna climb that slide to the top, or nearly so, of Mt. Colden. You might want to camp out. That would be a very ambitious one day endevour. Moreso in the short days of winter. Have fun! can I come?!

edited to add: I'm thinkin' those distances sound a little short. take those as minimums. but they give you an idea. the terrain is rough going though. don't compare to the # of miles you might have x-country skied somewhere on groomed trails. It ain't like that at all.

[Lbtchnlgs]

thanks for all the info freeheel. i plan on hiking it this summer. Maybe next winter ill hike it and take the fun way down. I would probably camp over night so i have more time to snoop around

-chris