Hiking on Mary Ann Furnace Trail in Hanover, Pennsylvania

South Central Pennsylvania is mostly farmland and there aren't many hiking trails near Dover.  Eric and I drove south of Hanover to the Mary Ann Furnace Trailhead.

Our hike starts on this bridge...

... over West Branch Codorus Creek.

A selfie on the trail's wooden bridge

The trail to the left is closed.

Workers are moving a tree that fell across the trail.

Our first Mushroom sighting.

I'm not able to identify it.

The lighting is perfect to show these mushrooms growing from a felled tree.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to identify the mushrooms we find.  Please send a comment to help me identify today's fun-guys.

Eric clambers over a fallen tree.

A Great Egret wades in the shallows.

A view of Lake Marburg

Eric gets a shot of me taking a picture of...

... this tree fed mushroom.

Eric stops & points out this deposit of Shale.

Shale is a sedimentary rock that forms in layers parallel to the earth's surface.   Underground pressure folded the rock into this perpendicular alignment.

Is this a mushroom or a bark deformity?

Eric points out a piece 

of Quartz.

A lakeside picnic table at

Codorus State Park.

A Spider's Web between two

branches of undergrowth.

Eric & I sit on a bench & look

out over marshland.

We pass a picnic table next to

the Creek, near the end

of the trail.

Eric recorded our hike

on his AllTrails App.