Slide climbing is a type of hiking or mountaineering popular mainly in the Adirondack Mountains. It focuses around utilizing the region's multitude of "slides," which are areas where the soil and growth have been washed away in a landslide, leaving a strip of bedrock; these slides have a wide variation in type, which could last as short as a few hundred feet to over a mile long, and as gradual as the hiking trails in the area to the point where they can accurately be described as cliffs.