Whiteface Slides #1-2 & 2B
On this particular day hike, Joe and I met at the Whiteface toll road gate 30 minutes before they opened. We got in line at 8:15 and the gate opened at 8:45. Our goal for the day was to spot a car at the summit and drive down the road to the bottom of the toll road slide. Also known as slide #6. We climbed up #6 and where we reached the summit wall of rock. We followed that left until it ended, and we jumped onto the road to walk down to the first bend in the road. We crossed over the opposite side of the mountain where we descended Slide #5. We then climbed slide #4. Descended #3, Climbed Slide 2B, Descended #2 and finally climbed #1 to the Summit. The day was only 3 miles long. Almost 100% of it was on the slides. It took us 8 1/2 hours. The slides were very steep and technical and half of them were very slippery and grown and covered with lichen and moss. They were so dirty and messy that I chose not to film #6-#5-#4 or #3. One quarter of the way up #2B in the middle of a class for scramble. I looked at Joe and said I think it’s time to put out the camera shit starting to get real now. And that’s where we started. All the bushwhacking between the slides with some of the most impenetrable cripple brush I have ever seen. from the top of the slide on number one to the summit was a total of 200 feet of travel and it took us somewhere between 30 and 40 minutes to go 200 feet in distance. That’s the kind of bush is on those slides. After being there and doing them and seeing them on this video, they are so much steeper than portrayed in here. I didn’t get the camera angles right and my favorite part had to be deleted because I was so far away from the GoPro that you couldn’t even see what I was doing. Every time I fill the slides, I learn the best way to portray them and I learned a few more lessons on this one. Hope you guys enjoy this slide climbing content and possibly my last one for the season.