Catskills 3500 Club
It’s interesting to me that I’ve never hiked in the Catskills before deciding to tackle this list of the 35 peaks there over 3500 feet. On a good traffic day, I can get there in about 2.5 hours and some of the trails are truly beautiful. Heck, I think I can knock out this list over a series of 1 day treks. We shall see.
To officially warrant inclusion into the 3500 Club, I must climb Slide, Blackhead, Balsam and Panther mountains again in winter – making the total climbs 39. A whole host of them do not have trails to the top and the bushwhacking through the spruce, fir and pine trees is legendarily awful. I can’t wait.
View from Wittenberg Mountain in the Catskills, 8/27/2009
Rank | Peak | Elevation | My Hike Report |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Slide | 4180 | Go Here |
1a | Slide (Winter) | 4180 | Go Here |
2 | Hunter | 4040 | |
3 | Black Dome | 3980 | Go Here |
4 | Thomas Cole | 3940 | Go Here |
5 | Blackhead | 3940 | Go Here |
5a | Blackhead (Winter) | 3940 | |
6 | West Kill | 3880 | |
7 | Graham + | 3868 | |
8 | Doubletop * | 3860 | |
9 | Cornell | 3860 | Go Here |
10 | Table | 3847 | |
11 | Peekamoose | 3843 | |
12 | Plateau | 3840 | |
13 | Sugarloaf (Mink) | 3800 | |
14 | Wittenberg | 3780 | Go Here |
15 | Southwest Hunter (Leavitt Peak) * | 3740 | |
16 | Balsam Lake | 3723 | |
17 | Lone * | 3721 | |
18 | Panther | 3720 | |
18a | Panther (Winter) | 3720 | Go Here |
19 | Big Indian | 3700 | |
20 | Friday * | 3694 | |
21 | Rusk * | 3680 | |
22 | Kaaterskill High Peak + | 3655 | |
23 | Twin | 3640 | |
24 | Balsam Cap | 3623 | |
25 | Fir * | 3620 | |
26 | North Dome * | 3610 | |
27 | Eagle | 3600 | |
28 | Balsam | 3610 | |
28a | Balsam (Winter) | 3610 | Go Here |
29 | Bearpen + | 3600 | |
30 | Indian Head | 3573 | |
31 | Sherrill * | 3540 | |
32 | Halcott * | 3537 | |
33 | Vly * | 3529 | |
34 | Windham High Peak | 3524 | Go Here |
35 | Rocky * | 3508 |
* Trail-less summits with registers
+Summits without maintained trails or registers
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