Last evening my husband & I walked on another of the "Rails to Trails" in our area. This one was from Wehrum to Vintondale - two tiny towns around here. We started the trail with a hike up a boney pile. A boney pile (also called a spoil tip or pit heap) is: "pile built of accumulated spoil - the overburden removed during coal and ore mining. These waste materials are generally composed of shale, as well as smaller quantities of carboniferous sandstone and various other residues. Spoil tips are not formed of slag, but in some areas they are referred to as slag heaps." (Thank you Wikipedia)
We then walked around 2 miles and the weather was gorgeous. It was October 9 and the weather was over 80 degrees. That is very rare for Pennsylvania, especially since we had our first snowflakes last week.
The boney pile, a view from the ground:
My husband JOGGING to the top (yes, jogging!). By the way, I didn't jog. I slowly climbed.
this is exactly what fall is supposed to look like! absolutely breathtaking.
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