When the first people arrived on Friday night, it was raining. So they set up in the rain, ate and went to sleep.
Saturday was a gorgeous day. One group went bicycling at the nearby Lehigh Valley Gorge State Park. Another two groups hiked a mile to Mud Run (a fast-moving stream that is not at all muddy) and then to Hawk Falls. Mud Run was cool but bearable, and a number of us went swimming. There are a few areas deep enough to swim in. We enjoyed a campfire on Saturday night.
Sunday was overcast, but it did not rain until that night. Eight of us tried to eat breakfast at the nearby Hickory House restaurant, but after waiting forty minutes for our food, the waitress admitted that the cooks had not even begun our order. We left. They didn’t charge us.
That afternoon, most of us went to Boulder Field. Three people hiked (about three miles) and the rest drove. The boulders were awesome as they have been for the last ten thousand years. Some folks will be e-mailing me some pictures that I plan to post here.
Late Sunday night, as we were taking the garbage to the dumpster, it started raining hard and we all scurried to our tents. The ground was wet on Monday morning, and the water was still dripping from the trees, but the rain had stopped. We packed up and visited the Mud Run one last time. A few people said the water was colder, but most of us went in. We took turns letting the water propel us down a gentle rock slide.
A fisherman nearby had caught a trout and asked me to unhook it from his fishing line and throw it back in the water. It was the first time I had ever touched a live fish. The fish’s lip was cut, but it seemed OK. It swam away.
We cleaned up the site and left on Monday afternoon.
David Levner
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