“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
~ John Muir
~ 1838-1914
A
vehicle drives on Pennsylvania Route 248 West through the beautiful Kittatinny Ridge,
sugar dusted by a recent snowfall, on an early February afternoon at Lehigh
Gap.
I
shot this high contrast monochrome capture from my vantage point at the Lehigh
Gap Nature Center along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
(D&L Trail.)
In
the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, the Lehigh Gap
in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature
Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the
Delaware and Lehigh Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail).
The
Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh
Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running
from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and
Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
