For our second trip, we towed The Dreamcatcher to the Allegheny National Forest —
bear country — where we enjoyed long hand in hand walks enveloped in the fragrance of tall pines; and from our beautiful campsite along the bank of the Kinzua Bay, we headed out one afternoon to Rock City Park just across the New York state line.
Over 300 million years ago, colored quartz pebbles embedded themselves in a finer-grained material to form massive rocks known as quartz conglomerate or puddingstone; and Rock City Park is home to one of the largest deposits of puddingstone in the world. We followed damp, shaded passageways through the “rock city” where a seemingly infinite variety of soft, interesting mosses clung to the surfaces between the embedded pebbles. (These pretty pebbles are the very types of pebbles we delighted in finding when we were kids calling them “lucky stones.”)
Balancing Rock weighs 2 million pounds; and although it looks like it’s leaning on the smaller rock, it is not. The two don’t touch, and Balancing Rock truly is balancing!
