Biscuit Brook's valley in the Catskills
This is an area right in the heart of the Catskills, running up against a high ridge along the range's main divide. A few miles to the west of Slide Mountain and the range's steepest terrain, it is a spot surrounded by many layers of big long, lumpy Catskill ridges and miles of nearly unbroken forest on all sides. Biscuit Brook is a tributary of the West Branch of the Neversink River at the top of the Delaware river's watershed. It drains the southwestern side of a 3000 foot ridge along the "Catskill Divide" dividing the Delaware's and Hudson's basins. The stream runs for about 3 1/2 miles down a narrow, gradual valley, emptying into the Neversink just below 2000 feet. Long ridges flank the valley, remaining flat-topped and above 3000 feet for almost two miles from the main divide Though the gradient of the river is not steep, the valley is moderately rugged. Biscuit Brook flows directly across red Catskill sandstone bedrock in many places. The ground