Schuylkill River Trail Hike

September 2020

As part of my training for Camino Frances this is a first attempt at consecutive multi days hikes.
With this distance - it would be a very long Day on Camino, for sure 😁 Read more

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- Sep 5, 2020, 6:51am
- ☀️ 55 °F
- Altitude: 135 ft
- United States Perkiomen Creek 40.11597, -75.4604540°6’57” N 75°27’38” W
Day 1
Pawlings Road Trailhead
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 55 °F
Starting point of my hike

Pawlings Road Trailhead was developed by Montgomery County Parks & Heritage Services and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The trailhead provides local residents and visitors easy parking and access to three separate trail systems, the Schuylkill River Trail, the Perkiomen Trail and the Audubon Loop Trail.Read more
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- Sep 5, 2020, 7:46am
- ☀️ 59 °F
- Altitude: 108 ft
- United States Betzwood Park 40.11106, -75.417740°6’40” N 75°25’4” W
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Betzwood Studios
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
Betzwood Studios werefounded by movie pioneer Siegmund Lubin.
D. W. Griffith filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood in 1910, but studios were not built there until 1913, long after Lubin had established himself in the Philadelphia area in 1898.
In 1912 Lubin bought the Montgomery County estate of brewer John Betz and began to develop Betzwood.
One of the films shot here was 1914 The Servant Girl’s Legacy- the earliest surviving film of Oliver Hardy

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- Sep 5, 2020, 9:01am
- ☀️ 66 °F
- Altitude: 62 ft
- United States Barbadoes Island 40.11555, -75.3549240°6’56” N 75°21’18” W
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Riverfront Park
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
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- Sep 5, 2020, 10:10am
- ☀️ 72 °F
- Altitude: 79 ft
- United States Sawmill Run 40.11089, -75.3385340°6’39” N 75°20’19” W
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Passing through Norristown
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
Small Jib Crane shortly pass Morristown Transit Center

you can see the First Presbyterian Church steeple mid-left of the picture - about 5 blocks away
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- Sep 5, 2020, 10:39am
- ☀️ 73 °F
- Altitude: 79 ft
- United States Diamond Run 40.10101, -75.3194340°6’4” N 75°19’10” W
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Brad Fox Memorial
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
A Memorial to Bradly M. Fox, a Plymouth Township's Officer who made the ultimate sacrifice and tragically lost his life on duty. It was on Sept. 13, 2012. - the eve of his 35th birthday Brad was killed after responding to a hit and run on Ridge Pike on Sept. 13, 2012.
He pursued the suspect to the vicinity of Conshohocken Road and Ernest Station Road, near the Schuylkill River Trail, when the suspect shot him in the head and killed him.

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- Sep 5, 2020, 12:01pm
- ☀️ 75 °F
- Altitude: 82 ft
- United States Lee Park 40.07411, -75.2861240°4’27” N 75°17’10” W
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Spring Mill Station
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
My second brake of the day.

The original station was established by the Reading Railroad about 1880, and took its name from the nearby 18th-century grist mill.
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- Sep 5, 2020, 2:00pm
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Altitude: 69 ft
- United States Ottinger Tract 40.04388, -75.2499840°2’38” N 75°14’60” W
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Shawmont Station
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Shawmont is a former train station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the oldest surviving passenger railroad station in the United States, built in 1834 by the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, the city’s first rail company and is believed to have been built by renowned architect William Strickland.

http://www.preservationalliance.com/endangered/…

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- Sep 5, 2020, 2:57pm
- ☀️ 81 °F
- Altitude: 59 ft
- United States Boone Park 40.02519, -75.2237340°1’31” N 75°13’25” W
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Manayunk
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
My lunch (and what turned out to be - final) break on the Manayunk Canal Towpath

Opened nearly two hundred years ago, in 1819, the Manayunk Canal was a key link in the hundred mile long Schuylkill Navigation system. Built to bring coal to the coastal cities and ports by way of canal barge, the waterway was soon overshadowed by the network of railroads then being built. After peaking in the 1850s, traffic on the canal dwindled each year with the final commercial boat passing in 1922.Read more
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- Sep 5, 2020, 3:25pm
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Altitude: 52 ft
- United States Boone Park 40.02403, -75.2220340°1’27” N 75°13’19” W
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Venice Island
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Venice Island is a piece of land formed by the Schuylkill Canal and the Schuylkill River, near Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was a mill site in the 19th century
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- Sep 5, 2020, 4:39pm
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Altitude: 46 ft
- United States Falls of Schuylkill 40.00899, -75.1967740°0’32” N 75°11’48” W
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East Falls Bridge
September 5, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
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