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9.24 Monday
Temperature this morning is 52 but we will wait until it reaches 59 before we leave the coach. The trip to Bushkill Falls in the town of Bushkill, PA, is only about fifteen-minute ride from our site; a breath of fresh air from yesterdays two-hour trip to NYC.
The nice thing about this venue is the wooden walkways. We will find these covering ninety-percent of the walk we will be taking. Below are the options we have with four trails. Green was the shortest at about 20 minutes. We chose yellow. Yellow, they say, would take 45 minutes, but in actuality took about 75 minutes. Each trail comes with it’s own challenges as you will read in a few pictures from now.
The pictures are in the same order as our walk, hope you enjoy the walk. We came home exhausted just like yesterday, it should not be that hard on you, the reader.
We’re approaching “LOOKOUT MAIN FALLS”. In all I believe we’ll see four different water falls and water basins.
560-Yes, we are as high as it looks in the picture. You should try climbing all these d_ _ n stairs. Going down was not that bad, whenever you go down, you must come up!
577-We’re approaching “THE TOP OF LOWER GORGE FALLS.”
People rarely volunteer so why should this day be any different. So I asked the kind lady and she said yes.
Above is the path we just came down. I think we’re at the bottom, but we’ll see! …Mistaken!
We’re both a little pooped, Good time to stop. This walkway offers few benches. Below is the bottom of MAIN FALLS.
They were so kind to at least warn us of the challenges of the two other trails. Yellow, as you see below was our choice. I could barely handle this trail so we made the proper choice.
There seems to be a never ending array of stairs going “down.” I don’t look forward to the trip up in a few minutes. The picture below is one of the best pictures, I believe, I’ve ever taken.
Approaching “UPPER CANYON.” Did you hear the word “up?”
Above. This portion of the river is called “ADAM’S FLATS.” It’s just that, a very flat area with the river running nicely through it. There’s the sign I’ve been waiting for; but it now means we have to climb our way out of this canyon.
Yup! We’re starting to go up.
We’ve exhaustingly come up a long way, but not there yet. We stop about every fifty feet to catch our breath and appreciate the views.
The walking is starting to get a little more challenging with the gravel and slate path.
Almost there. So tired I’m having trouble pushing the button to take the pictures. Carla’s had it also.
The gift shop and snack bar. The fries we’re awesome, so crunchy!
