If you just want to climb the slide and return to your car on Rt. 73, you can make this a day trip. Day trippers need to be in good condition and should start early. Those doing an overnight can return over the same trail and leave their packs at the base of the slide for the slide climb. You will find many suitable campsites on the route.
Water is near at hand almost all the way to the slide.
A loop from the top of East Dix back to Rt. 73 via Spotted Mt and Elizabethtown 4 is recommended. It would be more interesting and should be done as a day trip to avoid lugging packs up the slide. Information provided on this site is intended only to supplement and not replace or contradict the information provided in guidebooks. The Hike In Photos and Text Ascent of East Dix and Dix Range via unmarked trail starting at Rt.