"Mimi and I were joined by Joanne O. for a traverse of the Burroughs range from Slide to Witt while working on our single season Spring round. A wonderful blue sky day with plenty of sun, sunglasses were put on early, that eventually deteriorated to overcast. Regardless our shades stayed on for style points and photo ops. Still enough ice/crusty snow to warrant spikes, on and off after leaving the summit of Slide." — Nimblefoot • Mar 28, 2025

"Traverse of the Burroughs range with Tom R and Joanne. We went from Slide PA on Rt 47 down to Woodland Valley as usual to reduce the elevation gain. But then we had the ever popular 3 mile descent from Wittenberg at the end which can be a bit tedious. Spikes all day, walking on more rock than ice or snow, and carried the snowshoes just in case. Surprisingly for a weekend day, Sunday, we only met one other hiker descending Slide as we were heading up." — Nimblefoot • Dec 15, 2024

"An out and back hike of the Burroughs range with Mimi out of the Slide Mtn TH. Nice casual pace with plenty of chit chat equals long day. Pleasantly cool day that was mostly cloudy. Fortunately clear sky and sunny when we reached Wittenberg for our half hour lunch break. " — Nimblefoot • Oct 28, 2024

"Nice moderate range in the Catskills. Very good trail conditions and the way up Slide is super easy. Hikes out and back from Slide Mt. Trailhead. Slide Crack and Cornell Crack are not difficult. Wittenberg has the best views of the three. Took me 6 hours." — elimihuta • Oct 12, 2024

"Traverse of the Burroughs range from Slide Mtn TH to Woodland Valley TH with Tom R. and Susan. We are still spoiled with warm temps at home( 60’s-70’s) so it was a pleasant surprise to experience more seasonal temps in the “mountains” of 40’s with cooling breezes. Makes everyone start to think about adding hats/gloves and extra layers to their packs or at least in the car. Today we were like “lizards” embracing the bright sunshine for warmth, felt so good, rather than dreading the heat and excessive sweating. An interesting question was posed by a young woman who arrived at the summit of Witt while we were enjoying our lunch in the sun with the panoramic view. “Would we like a Polaroid photo taken of us”. At first we were a little dumbfounded as the word “Polaroid” is no longer frequently heard but after a short pause we responded with a resounding “Sure”. So we posed, with Susan in the middle, looking very happy as she focused and pushed the button. Minutes later it was like we opened a time capsule as our image slowly appeared bringing back memories of 70’s/80’s(?). They allowed me to keep the photo as a memory of this day as my hiking in the Catskills will become infrequent ..." — Nimblefoot • Oct 9, 2024

"Traverse of the Burroughs range from Slide TH to Woodland Valley with the Two Toms, Susan, Lori and Rebecca. Lori completed her 2nd Catskill Grid on Slide, receiving a nice certificate and patch, so we celebrated with Yodels and Fireball. Over on Wittenberg during our lunch break Rebecca and I were presented with our triangular patches for completing a single season summer, her 2nd and my 1st and only as summer is ending soon. Very few folks out on such a lovely day." — Nimblefoot • Sep 18, 2024

"Tom R. led a Burroughs range traverse from Slide mtn Th to Woodland Valley TH. Also on the the hike was Rebecca, Susan and Susan’s friend Nancy from Westchester County. Nice temps with enough cloud cover to filter the bright sun and some breezes to cool us off from time to time. Unfortunately the temps were warm enough and the breezes too sporadic to keep the bugs at bay. The three ladies were applying repellent all day long and were still bothered. All the blowdowns from the Spring storms were all cut out or removed…yay!…so clear sailing across the range." — Nimblefoot • Jun 4, 2024

"Tom, Richard, Susan and I traversed the Burroughs range from Slide mountain TH to Woodland Valley. We encountered stretches of old but solid ice on our way up Slide that will most likely stick around well into the month of May. We also encountered plenty of blowdown from recent wind storms, maintainers will be busy when they get out there. Two of us wished we had packed our silky saws to do some preliminary trimming/removal to keep folks on the trail." — Nimblefoot • Apr 25, 2024

"Out and back hike of the Burroughs range from Slide Mountain TH. Still plenty of hard icy spots and icy stretches making the use of spikes a good idea. Unfortunately I only brought my sacrificial spikes, which have become quite dull, so I had some slides but no spills. Off and on wind all day reducing the temperature comfort." — Nimblefoot • Mar 29, 2024

"Richard, Mimi, Rebecca, Tom and I did a traverse of the Burroughs range from Slide Mountain TH to Woodland Valley. Warm but not too warm so no melting or slush. Carried snowshoes but only wore micro spikes all day for the packed snow and ice. For a Sunday with nice weather the range was basically a ghost town. Other than a couple and two guys hiking separately, on their way out from Slide, we saw no other hikers all day. Richard closed out February his 11th month of his 420 grid. " — Nimblefoot • Feb 11, 2024