Hunters Pass Slide | Climbing Dix Mountain in the Adirondacks

Hunters Pass Slide is a 2000 foot long slide covering 1200 feet of vertical gain on the West Facing Slope of Dix Mountain in the Adirondacks. This is considered a fourth class climb with fifth class optional routes.

[@kellyg6058]

This video is absolutely beautiful! The quality, the angles, everything! You make it really feel like we are there! Great job! 👏🏻 thank you for sharing!

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Vlogging these slide climbs is one of my hobbies/passions! And all allows me to relive some of my favorite memories

[@kellyg6058]

@@BrianHikesAllDay absolutely 💯! Thank you for sharing your passions!

[@darinwhite5078]

Your slide videos just keep getting better and better. I don't know if the time of year but this one might be my favorite. The distant shots are insane and truly show how steep the climbs are - definitely worth the effort they must take to set up! Keep on hiking and stay safe.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Oh, I totally feel you on this one. This is probably one of my favorite ones to put out on KZbin as well just because of how visually stunning the entire log came out. Sometimes they just come out amazing and sometimes they just come out good. It’s funny how it works. I thought Beckhorn slide was insane, but it wasn’t portrayed well on video, but my gosh, was this one amazing

[@craigriedel4688]

Another awesome video! That slide looks STEEP! ...but SO awesome! Thanks for the effort put into your videos.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

I wish you had a clue how much I appreciate that comment. You have no idea the amount of energy mentally and physically that I go through to try to capture these slides as beautifully and as thoroughly as possible. I appreciate you, my friend thank you.

[@kaiokenkamikaze21]

Dear lord this slide looks absolutely beautiful killer camera angles as always got my blood pumping 🍻

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Oh yeah brother I knew this one was gonna be a big hit when I put it out. It just came out out so breathtaking. All the time and effort I took to set up the shots was worth it.

[@db.mc2]

Awesome! Thank you Brian, Brendon and Bailey 👊🏻👍🏻 God Bless 🙏🏻 Appreciate you always my friends 🫶🏻 Stay safe and take care!

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Thank you! Bless you as well

[@cfgauss71]

Thank you ❤ for these amazing videos!

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Thank you so much for leaving a comment. I’m glad that you enjoyed.

[@kevinhikes3132]

Sweet slide I like it Good job, Brain & company

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Out of the 32 slides I have done. It was definitely up there in the top five

[@kevinhikes3132]

@BrianHikesAllDay I watched from the stepper , it's good motivation 💪

[@kevinhikes3132]

Bro, I finished my 46 September 10th on the Saddleback cliffs !!!

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Nice!

[@gregorynaigles1769]

Great video as always! And I've always considered the insane bushwhack that you always do after each slide to be an integral part of these videos. I hope you continue to include that.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

I had three back-to-back slide climbs this weekend and I only had so much memory in my memory card so I was conservative. But I will always include the bushwhacks in most of them

[@RDJim]

Love that you stick with nearly the entire climb. Great shots.

[@tmlogan139]

That slide was absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much for posting this. You've made me want to go back to the Dacks in a big way.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

That’s what it’s all about, sharing my love and passion for these mountains and inspiring others to experience their beauty.

[@Tomangel61]

I love that part of the hike, havent done it in 20 years thanks for the vid.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

You haven’t hiked in 20 years or haven’t done Hunter’s pass slide in 20 years?

[@davem4193]

Beautiful footage once again brother.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Thanks so much man, I’m glad that everyone is noticing and appreciating the amount of time and effort I put into creating these things. Every slide I climb is nearly climbed twice to stage cameras. 😂😂

[@davem4193]

@BrianHikesAllDay yeah the camera setups are fantastic. As someone who has done a few slides I can imagine how long it takes to do all that.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

@@davem4193 editing these videos and putting them on KZbin usually takes many more hours than it is to hike these things

[@davem4193]

@BrianHikesAllDay I bet, I don't think people realize just how long it takes just to edit videos.

[@larriettausa]

That is a huge slide. Very tempted to try.

[@bucky716]

You guys made that look easy. Ever think about attaching fishing line to reel your gopro back up? Seems possible on a slide.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

That’s way too much work and I don’t wanna scratch the camera lens lol. I have no problem going up and down. So this past Saturday, I just climbed all of the finger slides on the wrist. We covered eight different slides. Because of the ambitious day, I did not bother staging the camera at all. It would’ve been too much work. So I did it Vlog style and tried to get all the angles of my partners. I think it came out really great and it is definitely a hike this hike with us style. I think it’s gonna be one of the most epic slide climbing Vlogs ever but it is also a movie that you’re gonna have to sit down on a TV to watch. It’s an hour and 25 minutes long. I still have several slide Vlogs in the queue so it’s not gonna post for another month. Next Monday is the angel slides on right peak a week after that that will be Kilburn slide and a week after that will be all of the slides on dix in one hike.

[@meto.meto.z]

Goddamn that looks great. I went up the index finger back in June but it looks like I may need to get back there before winter. Better than the Hunter's Pass trail in any case

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

I think so for sure

[@cbgny23]

I've done Dix in Winter via Round Pond, but man, I'd love to see how much ice that crux grows! Wonder if it'd be worth hauling in ice gear for just a calf-burner?

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

I’ve never done winter slide climbing so I can’t say, but I can’t see how this wouldn’t be fun if you have the gear. There is a write up about that crux.. it is pretty much a dead end without climbing gear. I’m sure it would probably get some ice for the winter.

[@millerman31564]

Brian, Great video as always. Quick question if I may…how time consuming are the distant shots of the three of you climbing to set up and take down? If you’re climbing up to set it then you are hardcore to the core. Awesome. 👏

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

In order to answer this question, I have to toot my own horn a little bit. I am an absolute mountain goat. I can run up and down mountains all day without wearing out usually. 😂😂 I’m in the mountains so often that I just have incredible stamina and speed. Seems to never really end as long as I keep feeding myself fuel and electrolytes. 😂😂 And I would say when editing the footage most of my shots I’m deleting a solid minute of footage before we are climbing in the shot. So if I set up the camera 10 times I’m probably wasting about three times that. Trying to find the right spot that I want to set up the camera jamming sticks into the ground to alligator clip my GoPro to hold it at the right angle that I want etc. Every shot might take a good 5 minutes of set up

[@millerman31564]

@@BrianHikesAllDay That explains how you’re able to comment so effortlessly while you climb. That’s killer. Honestly I first thought your narration was overdubbed. Hike on! 👍🏼🥳👍🏼

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

@@millerman31564 what is overdubbed mean?

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

@@millerman31564 never mind I looked up the Google definition lol.

[@pear1831]

climb the back in the saddle slide on saddleback next before it gets too cold and snowy

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Believe it or not that was on the agenda recently but it’s probably getting pushed out till next season. I’m thinking one to two more Saturdays and then slide climbing season is done till May/June.

[@AnwarKhan-qj8sk]

What watch do you use?

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

You know, I should probably start mentioning these things in my Vlogs. A lot of people are very curious about it. That watch for me has been a game changer and one of the best investments I’ve ever made. With the watch in combination with plotting on apps like CalTopo, I can get those plots on my watch and follow them as if their trails so navigation has become extremely easy. Also, I recognize your thumbnail and you had been trying to send me a friend request on Facebook and I was denying it because I didn’t know who you were or if you were spam. You can send me another one and I’ll accept it. I know you’re engaging with my content. I’ve been in a process of really managing social media lately on who follows and following and all those things, etc. I even went as far as to delete my Instagram account all with 50,000 followers. I’m pretty much starting over with a small account and trying to keep quality over quantity.

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

The watch is a Garmin Fenix 7X Pro Sapphire Solar

[@KhurshidsChannel]

Your video was truly beautiful and inspiring. As a fellow creator, I appreciate the effort you put into it. Sub and 👍94

[@jeclose]

Yeah, there it is: "Jim's Crack" (what you call the "crux") - the diagonal crack I followed right up the middle of that bowl in September, 2001, in ratty old hiking boots. The crack thinned out to nothing as I reached the lip of the bowl, and I prayed for a holding smidge of friction to get me up and over, because failure was not an option. That's why I'm talkin' to you today 🥣 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqDPf4epdp2ompI

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

Yeah, I didn’t even think it looked humanly possible to do that when I got up and looked to the side. Definitely not worth risking my life over that’s for sure lol

[@jeclose]

@@BrianHikesAllDay It was totally impulsive on my part to tackle that crack in the bowl and follow it all the way up and out. There was a point of no return, but if you're going to do it - and make it - you don't let your mind go there. I wonder if anyone else has done that exact line - who knows? BTW, you use the word "timid" to describe certain slide features... is that just your way of saying, "scary"?

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

@@jeclose timid means not that steep. Usually walk upright

[@jeclose]

@@BrianHikesAllDay Would have loved to re-live that climb if you had the gumption to do it with your Go-Pro attached 😜

[@BrianHikesAllDay]

@@jeclose well now that I know it’s humanly possible to do. I would attempt to do it if someone had a rope there just so I can grab onto it if things weren’t gonna work out lol