AT at Fox Gap

Appalachian Trail at Fox Gap (10/14/2012)

This is the second time in a week that I hiked a section of the AT on the Pennsylvania side near the Delaware Water Gap. On Monday, the foliage on Mt. Minsi was quite good, but today it was even better. Three weeks ago we hiked an out-and-back from Tott's Gap west to the Kirkridge shelter, arriving at the shelter the very moment the autumnal equinox arrived. On that day there was a heavy mist that obstructed or eliminated the views. So today we headed back, further west to Fox Gap, to visit Wolf Rocks to the west, and return to Nelson Overlook to the east.

We parked at the small pull-off at Fox Gap where the AT crosses Route 191. We first headed west to visit the wonderful north-looking view at Wolf Rocks and then headed back to the car, crossed Route 191 and continued east to the spectacular south-facing view at Nelson Overlook. There was no mist today! We had lunch here and then backtracked back to the car. Along the way we explored a few other spurs to views, a couple in powerline cuts.

Total distance hiked was 5.7 miles in just over 3 hours.

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