The climb out of the Lehigh Valley near Palmerton, PA is one of the hardest stretches of the Appalachian Trail south of New England. When you get to the top of the climb, you are greeted with a wasteland under cleanup by the EPA from an old mining operation. #hiking - https://amerpie.lol/2025/04/18/climbing-out-of-the-lehigh.html - #Photography #the100pics Follow me on Pixelfed @amerpie@pxlmo.com
Consulting the stars while planning my weekend adventure.
What're the plans for your weekend adventure?
Wanna storm a castle?!
Planning for that weekend adventure?
Let's goooooo
Another wizard's tower. Again, no answer at the door!
Delivered 
I haven’t read a real book for a while, so I am going to read this 
Thanks to @GregArcus
A brief side-to-side tail wag
I guess this deer thought I wasn’t a threat and felt safe enough to let me stay and keep fishing
Ranger Sarah with a look at the mountains in the near by Gates of the Mountains Wilderness.
— at Holter Lake State Recreation Area.
Ranger Sarah turns on to Upper Log Gulch to reach the saddle and high point. She is going through about 4 inches of snow here.
— at Holter Lake State Recreation Area.
Ranger Sarah get a short bit of trail with out snow as she climbs toward the saddle.
— at Holter Lake State Recreation Area.
As Ranger Sarah climbs higher the snow is getting deeper
— at Holter Lake State Recreation Area.
Ranger Sarah continues to climb up the trail from Juniper Bay.
— at Holter Lake State Recreation Area.
Just finished a 13-mile hike through a national forest. I only get a chance to do this a couple times a year. There's a really unhappy tendon or ligament where my right hip fits into my abdomen, but the rest of me is quite delighted. Scrub jays were my main companion, but also just the freedom to let my mind roam or even shut off. It was sad to come off the trail straight into a hot sea of asphalt and giant stores.
The next 4 days I am going to hike the Utrecht Path (Utrechtpad) which is 167 kilometres long. Each day I will hike ~42 kilometres, 4 days in a row.
My lovely walk today was cut short because I rolled my ankle on a pothole on a country lane, fell down and hurt my knee and wrist. So rather than a 15km walk, I ended up only walking about 7km. When I got home and took my boot off, my ankle swelled up and is now in agony. So my boot kept my ankle stable and pain free, which I guess is a good thing, but I may have walked on it too much.
We have a walk planned with friends tomorrow as well, hope I’ll be able to walk then. It’s not looking hopeful 
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#walking #hiking
At the edge of the Gabriel Icefall on the Gulkana Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range. When you realize how those boulders got there, it's not a place you want to hang out for too long.
My hiking guide to the area: https://www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-guide/gulkana-glacier-hike/
