golv: stone soup stroll

The annual Get Out Lehigh Valley stone soup stroll was today. It was the same yet very different.  It has a new name. The group is now "Get Out for Wellness". Why the name change? Because now there are now two sets of hikes. The first is in the Valley. The second are include Carbon and Monroe counties. I might actually attend more of those than the Lehigh Valley ones. I've never heard of any of those parks. And they are on Sunday afternoons. Not great for summer, but we will see.

As usual we all contributed food and Deng and his wife Mai made the soup. I took cooked kale. I also took leftover Christmas cookies. No, silly, they did not go in the soup. They went on the dessert table.

This is the walk where we get prizes for doing the ten walks the previous years. The one prize was a Wildlands t-shirt. Actually I figure this was just a clever ploy to use up old event shirts. I'm not one to dress like a billboard (back of shirt sponsors) so I passed. The other, for people who did more than 14  walks was a knit cap.

Finally we broke into two groups and hit the trails. Christine forgot to take a group picture, as well as a prize winner photo. Yeah!

Our group started on the boardwalk and took many trails finally returning to the environmental center. The soup wasn't done yet so we headed out again. When we came back this time lunch was served.

Miles/Steps:                  3 miles. 

Weather:                       58 at the start, breezy, parly cloudy
Bathrooms:                    I-3.5  

Wildlife:                         white throated sparrows, a pair of red tailed hawks, chimney swifts, cardinals both male and female