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Using the map (which is outdated) in this brochure we parked at the southern end of Blue (on CR621) and headed up, up, up onto the mountain continuing on Blue, then Orange, then Blue, then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 |
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Abandoned barn |
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Farm ruins |
Blue continues through farm |
Delapidated barn |
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Not quite ready! |
Rolling farm fields |
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Wildflower |
Back to Yellow (power line cut) |
Very steep, slippery descent |
Wand at bottom |
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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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