Monday, June 24, 2013

Day 95 Palmerton PA

6/23/13
Miles hiked 8
Total miles 1253.6

We took a short day in Palmerton. We are staying at the town jail house hostel. We are trying to rest for a big climb and a very hot day without cover because we are hiking thru a super fund site deforestation due to zinc smelting in the area for almost 100 years, ending in 1980. Kaboose

Today was fun. We hiked 8 miles. Today was hot. I think it is in the uundreds at one point. To trail was good it was mostly downhill. The town is great it is so beautiful. Sassafras

2 comments:

  1. Wow, wish you would have come through Wind Gap over the weekend. I am from there & would have liked to meet you guys. Unfortunately, this little thing called work seems to always get in the way.

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  2. I've been in Palmerton. Interviewed for a church there many years ago. Beautiful church and parsonage...with not a blade of grass anywhere...because of that mountain of zinc. Keep walking. I did...and ended up here in Maine. Ahhhh!

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