“I
belong where there are mountains and snow and clear, crisp blue skies.”
~ Tom Hiddleston
~ English actor
~ born 1981
The
mountains, snow and clear, crisp blue skies coalesce to create a majestic
winter vista on a late January afternoon where the Kittatinny Ridge, also
called Blue Mountain, is the star of the landscape along the Delaware &
Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.
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 D&L Trail.
Running
from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and
Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
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.