Snow in the Pennsylvania mountains

Drove to Pittsburgh today at Primanti Brothers for lunch, and spent the rest of the day wandering back to York over backroads and Route 30, or the Lincoln Highway.  Snow was about a foot deep at the Laurel Mountain summit, but disappeared quickly driving down and away from the mountains.

Stopped in Laughlintown, just north of Somerset, on route 30 and visited the outside of the Compass Inn Museum. Closed during winter months, the Inn is a restored stagecoach stop that operated from 1817 until 1862, and then became a private residence. Also on the property is a blacksmith shop, cookhouse and a barn. Restored  in 1966, the inn is open for tours May through October.

Took a few backroads and came upon about a dozen deer, who seemed surprisingly curious.

A few miles east on route 30 was Stoystown, the site of the Trostletown Covered Bridge, built in 1873 or 1845. .