DIX MOUNTAIN

Elevation:

Feet: 5114
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Rank:

High Peak
Adirondack Peak

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History:

Namesake: Dix Mountain

Dix Mountain Timeline

1807: The first recorded ascent of Dix Mountain is made by a surveyor known only to as Rykert, his last name, some time in 1807. It is unknown what his first name was.

1920: On June 9th, 1920, George Marshall, Bob Marshall, and Herbert Clark, the three men who were the first to climb all 46 High Peaks, made their ascent of Dix Mountain. It was only their seventh high peak and would wind up being their second of ten High Peaks that they would climb that year.
- Marshall, Bob, George Marshall, and Phil Brown. Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks: Writings of a Pioneering Peak-bagger, Pond-hopper and Wilderness Preservationist. Lost Pond Press. 2006.

1955: In 1955, the USGS performed a survey using standard (English) units [i.e. feet], identifying Dix Mountain as 4857 feet tall making it the sixth tallest mountain in the Adirondacks.

1978: In 1978, the USGS performed a survey using metric units [i.e. meters], identifying Mount Dix as 4823 feet tall. It corrected the 1955 USGS standard unit survey measurement of Dix Mountain by thirty-four feet when converted and changed the height rank of the mountain from the sixth to ninth tallest peak of the Adirondacks.