chair volleyball?

Today we had a volkssport walk on the D&L beginning at the Virginia Forrest Recreation Area outside of New Hope. A total of seven people came, and one didn't walk, they rode their bike.

This section of the towpath is not especially interesting. And because of the dry summer the canal was filled with weeds. There were a couple of spots with puddles. I'm not sure if it will recover or nature will just reclaim it.

 I found this set of stairs from the canal to the water. There is no apparent reason why they are there.

 As we walk, we talk. The turn around point was the Lumberville Pedestrian Bridge. After we turned, I started talking to a member I haven't seen since before the pandemic. Her husband died about five years ago and she moved into an apartment at a senior community.  There she teaches Mahjong. She also started telling me about chair volleyball? Say what? They set up chairs in a volleyball court and you use a giant beach ball. You cannot hit underhand. And more importantly you have to have one cheek on the chair at all times.  A internet search failed to find any public groups in the Lehigh Valley. It will have to go on my Athletic Adventures list along with Pound and belly dancing.

This isn't a wide path, you can tell by the photos that the width changes frequently, but the bikers were pissing me off today. They'd make us move right toward the weeds. Sometimes stepping into the weeds, praying I didn't fall into a dry canal. It's a 6 feet deep trench. There was plenty of room, most of the time, for them to get thru. They were just being asses. Rant over.

The weeds on the right are the canal.

 

Miles/Steps:  4 miles
Weather:       low 80s, sunny
Surface:         gravel and grass
SLF killed:     1
Wildlife:        dead deer