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A Cold Spring Walk Along The Lehigh River At Weissport.

My hike in the PPL Wetlands Saturday let me know me that the water bird migration through our area was near its peak. I usually see a lot of ducks on the Lehigh River near Weissport in Carbon County during the migration. That is where I headed for  my Sunday hike.

I arrived around 9 a.m. under  clear blue skies. The sun was warm but the air still cold. The temperature was around 28 degrees. It…

Blue Skies And Sunshine Along The Lehigh River.

I returned to the Lehigh River on  Sunday. It was the last weekend of Winter  but it  wasn’t feeling like Spring was only a few days away. It was another cold start. The temperature was 30 degrees with a steady northwesterly wind when I arrived at the parking lot in Weissport.  This time I decided to walk north on the old Lehigh Canal Trail that runs along the Lehigh River. I first walked the…

After a night of heavy rain, a thick fog moved into parts of Northeastern Pennsylvania  on Sunday morning. I decided to check out the Lehigh River and hike the D & L trail  along old Lehigh Canal near Weissport.  The fog was lifting  as I drove over the Broad Mountain but still remained along some of the ice covered portions  of the canal in Weissport.  The Lehigh River was now completely ice…