Dix Mountain

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Dix Mountain is located roughly on the boundary between the towns of North Hudson and Keene in Essex County, New York. It is one of the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains, at 4,857 feet (1480 m) in elevation.

While it stands somewhat south of the main High Peaks region (and in fact is at the center of its own eponymous wilderness area) and is more difficult to reach and steep and challenging to climb, the mountain enjoys great popularity with serious hikers not only due to its status as a required peak for Adirondack Forty-Sixers but for open views of the region from its summit, almost as good as those to be found at nearby Mount Marcy with far less crowds.

Dix is also the gateway to four other High Peaks in the Dix Range, all of them, unlike Dix itself, officially trailless: Hough, Macomb, South Dix and East Dix. One of the most difficult Adirondack peakbagging challenges is to do all five in the same day; while many have, most hikers prefer to break the trips up into separate assaults on Dix and/or one of the others.

The mountain was reportedly first climbed by a man named Rykert in the course of surveying the town line.

Hikers commonly choose to climb Dix from the south by taking the Elk Lake Trail from the similarly-named lake toward Hunters Pass, where a spur leads up to Dix. Less frequently, a lengthy northern ascent can start from the Au Sable Club in St. Huberts.

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