Slide Mountain
Slide may have been to John Burroughs what Everest was to Sir Edmund Hillary or what Denali was to Bradford Washburn. The man and mountain are inextricably linked. Burroughs wrote reverently about this, the tallest of the Catskills. He looked admiringly from afar at the peak that reminded him of a “gigantic horse (that) has got his head down grazing” long before he dared to try to sit on its back. In his essay, “The Heart of the Southern Catskills,” the turn-of-the-20th-century naturalist and poet wrote that Slide had “been a summons and a challenge to me for many years.”
At long last, he climbed. His ascent and writings are said to have “introduced Slide Mountain to the world.” Slide is now regarded, and rightfully so, as one of the most enjoyable outings in the Catskills.
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