Saturday, August 22, 2020

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










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.

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