Grace Peak

"This was a fantastic weekend My wife Brigitte and I wanted to do the Dix Range. We were lucky to find parking on a sunday afternoon at the Elk Lake Lodge. Our first afternoon hike took us to our camp site at Lilian Brooke. The following monday morning we started at 7h00am. Our itineray was to start the ascension of Macomb via the slides. The ascent was difficult but the view was amazing. Upon arriving at the top we saw a few hikers. 2 of them (Jimmy and Don) did the next 2 summits with us: South-Dix and Grace. We really enjoyed their company and we had a similar pace which was great. After Grace we parted ways. They head back down as Brigitte and I continued to Hough peak. We had read it was going to be though and it was true. We arrive at its summit around 3h30pm. Looking at what we still had to hike to get to Dix was impressive. Around 5h30pm we arrived at the summit of Dix... We started our descent around 6h00pm after saying goodbye to this magnificient view. We choose to go down via Hunter's pass even though it was going to take us longer. We knew that this path was easier then by the Beckhorn. We finally arrived at our camp site (Lilian Brooke) around 9h00pm...." — CPaquin • Aug 20, 2018

"Couldn't have asked for a better day to walk across the Dix Range. Though on the shorter side for a 46er the views from the summit were amazing. Definitely near the top of my favorite Adirondacks summits." — Right-On • Jul 29, 2017

"Trip report from the whole Dix Range traverse, included on all five logs: On Tuesday the 6th, Mom and I drove up to the Elk Lake parking lot and hiked in to the Slide Brook Lean-to. We got in sometime early evening and had the place to ourselves! It was raining, had been raining, and continued to rain into the early hours of Wednesday morning. But I'm willing to take the rain on set-up day versus hiking day. It was a little chilly at night and I had to put all my layers on to stay warm. I forgot that summer nights in the ADK can still fall into the 40's! Wednesday morning we were up at 6am and planning to hit the trail by 7am. A little late getting going and hit the trail by 740am. The climb up Macomb was pretty smooth, although wet and muddy (theme of the day). We found a sweatshirt, long sleeve shirt hanging off branches at one point and then a t-shirt and pants hanging off a tree branch at another point. Fully expecting a naked man at the top! (joking) Mom was nervous on the slide up Macomb but she did fine. Told her to just lean forward and don't look up! Once we hit the summit marker we stopped for some snacks, water, and pictures. The black flies weren't that bad at this po..." — tscha1 • Jun 7, 2017

"Solo. Macomb > S. Dix (Carson) > Grace > S. Dix (Carson) > Hough > Dix. Note pertaining to the entire day's hike - the trail register for the Dix Wilderness at Elk Lake Road was completely out of pages.. A little clarifying I did on my S. Dix summit log as well - When I read other people's trip reports about doing the entire Dix Range, all of them said "just past the summit of S. Dix, take a left to go to Hough, or a right to go to Grace (E. Dix), there is no cairn." I interpreted these reports to mean that there was a "T" or a "Y" junction a few steps from the summit of S. Dix. HOWEVER, just before the summit of S. Dix coming from Macomb there is indeed a cairn on the left going to Hough.. then you get to the summit of S. Dix.. and straight past that is the herd path for Grace. Blah blah. Maybe that'll help someone else in the future. The start of the Grace herd path was a nice little slide to drop off of, and then largely a really nice walk in the woods, with very few boggy spots. There wasn't much for gain or loss until I got to the rock scrambling / bouldering section just below the summit. What a view! I spent a few minutes on the summit with an older guy named Ray I had met o..." — kellieirene • Sep 12, 2016

"Hiked up Macomb and developed some ugly blisters. Continued on to Grace and Carson. With little available water and painful blisters, we decided to head down the Lillian Brook herd path. " — ne4kclimber • Jul 24, 2016

"Deb and I wanted to do part of the Dix Range, I had done Dix once before so we set out to do Macomb, Carson and Gracie. Great weather, the slide up Macomb was awesome to do and very unique. The views to the East from Gracie were great. We wanted to do Hough on the way back but we missed the herd path by the summit of Carson and ended up on the Lilian Brook herd path which took us out of the way. We will catch that one in the fall when I take Deb up Dix for her 1st time." — hbotc • Jun 4, 2016

"Eventful day! Hiked up the Macomb Slide in drizzle, then made out way over to Grace and Carson. By the time we were headed for Hough, it was raining and thundering. We hustled over to Hough, and scrambled over the summit as it began to hail. We ended with the Beckhorn and decided to get the hell outta there. " — ne4kclimber • Oct 20, 2011

"Two down, Macomb and S. Dix, two more to go on our loop hike of the trail-less Dixes. An easy walk over to the summit & canister via herdpath, running into two friends from the 3500 Club near the top. Time for a leisurely lunch & nap before heading back to S. Dix." — Nimblefoot • Sep 4, 1993

"The 3rd peak of the Dix Range for Frank and me that day. Randall celebrated finishing his Forty Sixer quest there with a huge hero sandwich. When we got back to South Dix we parted company with him and Glenn. Glenn pointed out the herdpath to Hough before we left." — barbaratraver • Sep 21, 1985