This entire mountain range that you are walking across, was the home of one of the world's best anthracite coal deposits in the world !
Directly underneath you, are underground mine tunnels that date back to the early 1800's.
Anthracite Coal from directly under your feet, in undergroud mines, was transported on the Rhume Run Gravity Railroad to canal boats in Mauch Chunk. Great history !
Mauch Chunk, aka "Jim Thorpe" tends to get all the tourism, and financial success from local history of the mining days, but the roots of Anthracite coal in this valley, all begins in Nesquehoning !
Does anybody know what Nesquehoning means in the Native American Lenape language ? It is believed to be translated as "narrow valley" or "black lick" as the animals would lick this black mineral.....
Cache is a 2 foot long pink tube with log sheet, and "Rhume" for travel bugs and swag