If you spend time in the Adirondacks, then you know the weather can be unforgiving at times. On occasion, Mother Nature can be so cruel that she’ll alter the landscape. When strong storms blow into the high peaks and drop multiple inches of rain in a short period of time, strips of land can be washed away off the mountains, leaving a “scar” of exposed anorthosite. These rockslides are a fun friction climb in the summer and an even better ski in the winter if conditions cooperate.
One of the more recent slides formed in the Adirondacks is known as the “Autobahn Slide” created after an intense rainfall in October of 2019.
