“The
sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”
~ Pamela Hansford Johnson
~ 1912-1981
The
cotton candy, bubblegum pink of a winter sunset brushes the snow sugared Kittatinny
Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, and reflects in the Lehigh River on a January
evening along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh
Gap.
In the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, 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.
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.
