blueberry patches in pa

[sasquatch2014]

I always leave the berries for the animals that normally eat them. I don't consider myself a tree hugger or a big supporter of PITA, but I always feel like I can buy whatever I need to eat, and the animals can't. Am I just going overboard?

I offset this by eating some of the animals as well it helps balance it out. PETA People Eating Tasty Animals

[Ender]

Back in '98, another hiker and I got sucked in by the blueberry bushes in PA. We stopped hiking, even though there was a thunderstorm coming, and collected a small bag each, and then rushed to the next shelter getting there just before the rain started. Made for some tasty times while waiting for the rain to stop. Mmmmmmmm....

[10-K]

I ate tons of berries and one cluster was the biggest I have ever seen. About 5 minutes of hiking later came the zinc site. Hope I was not as close as I fear I was.

You get used to the vision problems but I still hate it when people in Wal Mart stare at me.

[ShelterLeopard]

I have to say, I didn't think about the Palmerton Site- I ate a LOT of those blueberries on my section last summer... But they were darned good and I was hungry and wayyy dehydrated. My judgement was impaired and I love blueberries!

[ki0eh]

You could go up to the Quehanna Wild Area and eat your fill of blueberries too!

[mudhead]

I always leave the berries for the animals that normally eat them. I don't consider myself a tree hugger or a big supporter of PITA, but I always feel like I can buy whatever I need to eat, and the animals can't. Am I just going overboard?

Nah. I enjoy watching stuff eat berries. Blue poo is amusing.

You get used to the vision problems but I still hate it when people in Wal Mart stare at me.

Open mouth stare?

[~Ronin~]

When you guys are talking about the contaminated berries do you mean before you reach Palmerton, after you pass it, or both? And are they really that bad because I notice alot of people talking about eating the berries there each year. Just curious. When I was hiking southbound out of Lehigh Gap last week it seemed like most of the area up there had enough vegetation growing that I would think the berries there would be fine. There were a few spots around Devil's Pulpit and such that I might not eat from and I haven't gone northbound out of the gap yet so I don't know what that side is like.

[mweinstone]

mmmmmm...blueberry stuffed trailside animals of all kinds .mm.

[10-K]

When you guys are talking about the contaminated berries do you mean before you reach Palmerton, after you pass it, or both? .

I hiked that section sobo and the trail was rerouted over to the side of the hill the last miles before Lehigh gap. Blueberries the whole way..