Poking around PA

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I got through my finals so I thought I'd take a couple days to myself to look around. I went to Pine Creek Gorge with Petes step Dad. We spotted a bald eagle floating around the gorge and eventually alighting on a dead branch in classic baldy fashion. Being a biologist, he spent some time talking to the ravens as well.

From there we went for a drive to check out the work of the glaciers and argue about global warming. If this pic works you should be able to see what look like fingers pointing North East in Tioga and Bradford counties. This part of the world once had 1/2 mile of ice over it. The finger like ridges rise something like 900 feet in a mile from the valley floor. On top of the ridges there are streams and swamps that were created by glacial runoff. Today there are lots of rhodedidrom (sp?)swamps and scrubby forests. The area was once a major coal producer so you still have some spoiled streams, a lot of hunting cabins, and the remains of some depressed communities. Agriculture and commuter workers seem to be the way of life now. The views over the farmland valleys are fantastic and naturally I didn't bring a camera.