The Slide Mountain Wilderness is nestled in the Southwest part of the Catskills, right around Woodstock and Phoenicia, NY. It boasts the tallest mountain in the Skills, Slide Mountain, which is around 4200 feet high. That's only 25,000 feet smaller than Everest. We're getting there. Drive on out to the Slide Mountain trailhead in Big Indian, NY and walk a few miles up a somewhat steep trail to the top of Ms. Slide herself. Not much to be seen from the actual summit but along the way there's some great views of Catskill Park. No houses, no streets, just rolling hills for miles. It's the kind of scenery that makes you want to ditch electricity all together.Keep going past the summit for about a mile and a half into the notch between Slide Mountain and Cornell Mountain. There are some surprisingly difficult scrambles here that may require you to take your pack off. Make sure you fill up on water at the creek before the descent. There's not much else flowing anytime soon. A few great designated backcountry campsites are hanging out in the notch. I recommend going to the second one on your way to Cornell if you can. It's large and open and lies on the edge of a nice open rock face. If it's taken or you want to put your pack down at the first one, that ain't no thang. It's still a great place to be. The trip is about 5.5 miles in to the campsites.Make a big ol' fire (as long as you're below 3500 feet, which you should be) and sing Shania Twain songs at the top of your lungs. Enjoy the backcountry of one of the Northeast's best parks. It's a merry ol' time.