Lehigh Furnace Gap 11-06-2021

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14 members met around 8:30 AM on a chilly Saturday morning outside the alumni memorial building of Lehigh University.  We left for the furnace gap around 8:45 AM and we reached the furnace gap around 9:20 AM.

We started the hike feeling chilly as it was early in the morning and with a breeze even though it was sunny.
We stumbled upon a shelter for through hikers in AT. Apparently it is called as lean-to and has a record of hikers experiences recorded in a notebook.
After hiking some more distance, we crossed challenging elevation and stumbled upon this view where people took photos and stopped for water break
The hike was relatively flat after few inclination gains. After going for 5.3 miles, the loop ended according to alltrails and we all paused to have our lunch and banter about how the hike was not that hard.
Guanyang clicked our group picture in the sun and we headed back to return.
At mile 6.5, we saw that the trail was splitting into two and we took south trail as we came through north.
South trial surprised and challenged us with a very rocky terrain and inclination.
We then came and rested in the lean-to shelter before heading back to parking lot which was just 10 minute walk.
We reached back to Lehigh around 4:30 PM one hour earlier than anticipated!

Trip leader: VamC, Indranil
Photos: Everyone
Writing: VamC

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