Catskills in Autumn

Slide Mountain Loop, October 2001. This circular loop is about eighteen miles from start to finish, with some steep climbs and incredible views. We found great places to camp on Giant Ledge, and on the coll between Cornell and Slide.

View from Giant Ledge (3200')

Camping on Giant Ledge
There's some great campsites on top of Giant Ledge, and there is a good...

Sunset from Giant Ledge
The ledge has great views east and west.

Fall Colours
The path from Giant Ledge down to Woodland Campground was almost...

Crossing Woodland Creek (1400')
We stopped for lunch at to fill up on water at Woodland Valley...

Trail up to Wittenberg Mountain
The trail up to Wittenberg got pretty steep at times. We'd lose the trail...

Top of Wittenberg Mountain (3,780')
Great views of fall foliage and Ashokan resevoir.

Top of Slide Mountain (4180')
It was still early when we got to the top of Slide, and cold. The...

Catskill Foliage

article published 10/15/2001

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i just got done reading my side of the mountain
— kaitlyn, December 14, 2006

Whittenburg Next
Great shots, I just finished the giant ledge panther mountain climb, photos published on world is round.The view from whittenburg looks great I will try to get that in before winter. Thanks
— Jack Coleman, September 10, 2003

the trail
Chris,

I was wondering how challenging that trail was. The one from the photo that you headed out on.... I did devils path which is near devils tombstone campground and i found that to be very steep and challenging.. Can you compare the two .. that is if you went on devils path...

Thanks
— Dave, August 13, 2003

Awesome shot from the Giant Ledge. The tree tops look like a huge bowl of tricks.
— Lex Xavier, October 29, 2001

Beautiful land on Earth
This is really a Beautiful land on Earth, wish to be there.Thank You for sharing. GaoJun
— STAN., October 15, 2001

This is Dave, founder of worldisround.com. Our summer cottage happens to be in Phoenicia, a part of the world which our friend Cynthia accurately describes as a "secret". These beautiful photographs give some sense of just how amazing this place only 2 hours north of the city can be. I keep saying I'm going to do Giant Ledge at "peak" foliage, but I keep missing it. Congrats on doing the entire 18-mile run. I took the easy way up (Slide from the East, via the more interesting roundabout route, and Cornell from the west, from the Woodland Valley campground--it's great scrambling up over the those rock formations.) Have you guys done the full Escarpment Trail (trail 40 off 23A) and hiked up Caterskill Falls?
— David, October 15, 2001

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