Belle Ayr Mountain

"A nice cool but humid day for a walk in the park. A mostly overcast sky with glimpses of sunshine where letting my guard down resulted in a burn on my lower back. Used the Lost Clove trail as an approach to the peaks for a change of pace and go towards a second round of the All Trails challenge." — Nimblefoot • Jul 7, 2020

"Tom and I hiked from the Seager PA to Belleayre ski area visiting Eagle, Balsam, Peak 3375 then finally the true summit of Belleayre before taking the access roads down. Earned my Spring Season triangle patch on Balsam." — Nimblefoot • Jun 9, 2019

"It was a windy and snowy day in which to tackle a Belleayre, Balsam, and Eagle "Loop" from Rider Hollow. First I hiked over to the summit of Belleayre, acting like I belonged as several skiers gave curiously looks. Then to Balsam, where it seemed everyone and their uncle was out snagging the required winter 35 while the snowpack is low, and finally I battled several snow squalls over to a desolate Eagle, enjoying the solitude along the way." — Right-On • Jan 6, 2019

"Six of us met up to hike the final trails and trail sections for Jim’s finish of the Catskill All Trails patch. Up the Giggle Hollow trail, out and back on the P-W trail down to Woodchuck Hollow road then up Peak 3375 and out to Belleayre via the Ridge trail and service road. After snacks and beverages in the Lodge, with sauna-like heat inside, we headed down the Cathedral Glen trail and X-C ski trails back to our dropped off cars. The outside temp rose enough for me to strip down to shorts for the descent( woo Hoo ). " — Nimblefoot • Mar 1, 2016

"Red lining the Giggle Hollow trail on the way to Balsam mountain for my Grid buddy’s finish of his first 420 Grid. On the way we stopped off at the site of the old fire tower before heading out to the ski lodge to get the view. Re-finding a bench mark in the woods near the fire tower site and seeing Belleayre inscribed on it." — Nimblefoot • Aug 9, 2015

"Did my trail maintenance on the Diamond Notch trail then headed over to the Lost Clove PA to hike to the true summit of Belleayre. Out the ridge trail and service road pass the lodge/grill and the highest chairlift. Now I can count it as a Cat 100 done tagging Peak 3375 in the process." — Nimblefoot • Nov 6, 2013

"My wife and I were up to the Cats for the weekend so that I could do an end2end hike of the Escarpment trail on Saturday. On Sunday we chose to do Belleayre for an AM hike to tag an easy Cat 100 peak then hike Giant Ledge and Panther afterwards. We reached the site of the old fire tower and several bench marks and assumed we had reached the summits. Oops didn’t think to look over to ski area on the map to verify which area was highest." — Nimblefoot • Sep 30, 2007