Wisconsin Glacial Episode was only the latest of a series of ice wall incursions. For this walk I went off the path to bushwack, following a drift filled stream bed, evidence of multiple glacial incursions with subsequent changing the stream bed of Enfield Creek. Here I am walking on glacial deposition to the north of the current creek bed. A park ranger informed us of this location, it is difficult to comprehend or imaging a 50 foot hill of material deposited in this way. The creek does bend at this point and the deposition is easily seen from above.

The surface of the hill is hummocky, typical of glacial deposition.

Eventually the former stream bed intersects with a work road sloping back down to the Gorge Trail. It was here I found the oak apple gall of yesterday’s posting.

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