[at-l] Quick Trip Report / Gallery Posting Query
Ryan Brooks
ryan at hack.net
Fri Sep 15 15:54:30 CDT 2006
Mark Hudson wrote:
> <<
>
> Insane descent off Lehigh Gap going south.
> Vertigo-inducing, in fact. I can't remember
> anything in the Whites or in Maine quite like
> that. And I can't imagine what the f*** went on
> to cause that ridge to look like a barren moon-
> scape (between Little Gap and Lehigh Gap.)>>
>
> Just as insane going up!
>
> Palmerton was the site of a battery plant back in the days before
> pollution controls.
> What you have on the ridge is a Superfund site, zinc contamination
> wiped out everything up there.
Don't forget the yummy lead and cadmium!
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