Rules for the route:

- follow the official trail at all times, use the official GPX for the routing

- the route goes specifically from Rooster Comb Trailhead to the Garden Trailhead, start your watch at register just across the footbridge from Roostercomb parking lot

- Summit Upper Wolfjaw (20 yard out and back from the trail)

- Summit highest point on Haystack and Summit the summit block on Marcy above the plaque

- Follow the Phelps Trail on return, NOT the Hopkins trail

- Stop watch at the Gardens Parking lot

The Devil's Path is a hiking trail in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Though only 24.2 miles long, the trail boasts 8,000-9,000 vertical feet of climbing, and is considered by many to be the toughest hiking trail in the Eastern US. Wikipedia has detailed description of the trail.