Devil’s Path

The Devil’s Path is the name of a mountain range and hiking trail in the Greene County portion of New York’s Catskill Mountains. The mountains commonly considered to be part of the Devil’s Path are, from west to east, West Kill, Hunter, Plateau, Sugarloaf, Twin, and Indian Head.

The name comes from early settlers of the region, who believed the range’s craggy cliffs were specially built by the devil so that he alone could climb them and occasionally retreat from the world of men. Today, they are famous for the deep gaps between them, which get lower in elevation as the mountains between them get higher when proceeding westward on the hiking trail.

The mountains and the land around them were acquired by the state as Forest Preserve and made part of the Catskill Park in the 1920s and ’30s. Today the area is managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as the Indian Head Wilderness Area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil’s_Path_(hiking_trail)

Beaver Swamp

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This is the one of the headwaters that feeds the Upper Branch of the Schoharie Creek. You could say this where it "all starts" for the Schoharie Creek.

Taken on Sunday July 12, 2009 at Twin Mountain.

Slippery Descent

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It was a slippery desecent off of Hunter Mountain, when the trail when far enough south to be blocked out of sunlight, and ice made it tricky descending the trail.

Taken on Sunday April 12, 2009 at Hunter Mountain.

Southern Overlook

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There is a Southernly view from an Overlook about 1/2 miles south-west of the Fire tower just off the blue trail. The views from here are almost nicer then the fire tower, and remind you have undeveloped the Catskills really are.

Taken on Sunday April 12, 2009 at Hunter Mountain.