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DistractedHiker @distractedhiker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#HikingLog 53 #Pennsylvania Mocanaqua Tract, West End Colliery Even more Martian farther along. This spoil pile is obvious from space. I’m walking between its two longest “fingers” #hiking #reclimation #mine #abandoned #industrial #landscape #RockinTuesday #photography #landscapephotography #ECK

A narrow path through steep piles of dark coal waste, with scrubby trees growing along the edges and forested hills in the distance.

A deep trough between two massive black spoil ridges, opening toward green wooded hills

Looking uphill between steep, barren coal-waste slopes, with black shale and rusty orange rock fragments covering the ground

Satellite view of a huge, finger-shaped spoil pile in the forest, with several long narrow ridges radiating from a wider mound.