Mount Minsi



Mount Minsi, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania (11/3/2007)
This is hike #35 ("Mount Minsi") from the book 50 Hikes in Eastern Pennsylvania (4th edition), with a few extra spurs thrown in for good measure.
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AT trail head off Mountain Road


Lake Lenape

Cormorant chides a mallard


Mallard chides back



Glimpse of Mt. Tammany in NJ

 

AT packed with rhododendrons

Very rocky in places


Route 80 through the trees
 





Hiking the ridge
 


Lovely lichen on rocks

And trees


Eureka Creek
 


Its tiny falls

View of gap off AT

View east

View north
 




Fall foliage

 



AT continues to climb Minsi


Rugged ridge
 




More rhododendrons

 



View of Mt. Tammany in NJ

Tammany

Close-up of Tammany
 



AT survey marker at Minsi's peak

Taking the fire road back

Beautiful foliage
 


Lots of leaf drop


Ruins near Lake Lettini

 


Near Lake Lettini, now a swamp

Back to Lake Lenape

Tree mushrooms

Lilypads on Lenape
 

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