Marble Hill



Marble Hill (7/26/2014)

After spending two hours yesterday trying to find a new place to go hiking today (something that is becoming quite impossible for someone who has hiked so many miles of the state already), I decided to once again stand on the trekking poles of giants and follow in the boot and paw steps of my friends Daniela and Shawnee. They hiked this wonderful, rugged, overgrown, rocky, hilly area one week ago. So we headed here today to do all the trails they did and more.

Using the map (which is outdated) in this brochure we parked at the southern end of Blue (on CR621) and headed up, up, up onto the mountain continuing on Blue, then Orange, then Blue, then Yellow and then a Red-on-Yellow connector trail (not on the map) back to Blue, which we then took all the way to the cornfields north. We turned back at the ruins in the cornfield, continuing back on Blue until we got to the very steep powerline cut (which is denoted on the map as Yellow, though not blazed at all). At the bottom, just before reaching Marble Hill Road, a wand with a Yellow blaze directed us back into the woods and we followed Yellow (as blazed on the map) all the way back to Red-on-Yellow (not on the map), then headed south on Blue all the way back to the car.

Total distance hiked today was 5 miles in 3.5 hours, with a fair amount of climbing!

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Blue trail head

Large pull-off

Mourning Doves

Overgrown Blue


Heading north...

...on Blue

Parallels road here

Now it climbs

 

And climbs

Views of...

...the Delaware River

More climbing
 


Pennsylvania across river

More climbing

Now on Orange to...

...Fulmer Iron Mine
 


Various...

...photos of...

...Fulmer Iron Mine

Informative sign
 


Another pit?

Heading north on Yellow

Erosion

Stream crossing on Yellow
 


Hunting chair

Back on Blue

Narrow path

Trail tomfoolery
 


Blue is wild in places

Raspberries!

View of...

...Pennsylvania farms from...
 


...power line cut

Pennsylvania

Trail wildflower

Mushrooms
 


Raspberry picking [photo by Laura]

Blue heads to...

...edge of...

...active cornfield
 


[Photo by Laura]

View east

Gorgeous field of crops

 



Abandoned barn


Farm ruins
 


Blue continues through farm

Delapidated barn


Not quite ready!
 


Rolling farm fields


Wildflower

Back to Yellow (power line cut)
 


Very steep, slippery descent

Wand at bottom


Ferns on Yellow
 


Heading south on Yellow

Red-on-Yellow connector trail

Climbing on Blue

Rhododendrons on Blue
 


Sign at overgrown Delaware River view

Sign at rhododendron thicket

Descending on Blue

Back to bottom
 

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