 The chief challenge in following this route is routefinding on the ledges to the northeast of Round Top, where the unwary hiker can easily reach a dead end and have to backtrack.The summit of Kaaterskill High Peak is a small, viewless grassy clearing surrounded by boreal forest.A rock in the center holds a reference marker for two nearby United States Geological Survey benchmarks at the elevation marking the highest point on the mountain; the bolts themselves are on rocks in the nearby woods (one is on the southern trail five feet from the peak, the other is about to the south in the woods).