“One
must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
~ 1817-1862
Sunset
sweeps across the Kittatinny Ridge on a warm and beautiful last full weekend of
summer, my most favorite of seasons, on a September evening along the Delaware
and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.
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 the 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.
