Appalachian Trail Day 3

Tower Access Road to Stealth Site near Lehigh Furnace Gap – 12 miles

Sept 29th, 2013

This was the day Bauman dragged my bruised and bloodied carcass over/through the rocks at Lehigh Gap. By the end of the day he’d given me the trail name “IWET” (which didn’t stick) because I kept yelling ahead to him, “I wasn’t expecting this!” The rocks were very unexpected and very fun and a bit scary. We descended without dying but I did fall a few times and I think bent a pole. I was very exhilarated when we reached the bottom. My exhilaration was short-lived though because I learned that “What goes down must go up” and we now had a thousand foot climb ahead of us as we crossed the Lehigh River bridge.

Bob Bauman… the inspiration of my AT hiking career
My first taste of Lehigh Gap
The view from below
AT above Palmerton PA

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