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The following weekend Sly and I decided to investigate the trail. We crossed the street and followed a little road past some stores selling outdoor clothing and some street vendors selling…
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Old Rag has eluded us for years now -- a glaring white box on our mental East Coast to do list that we had yet to check. It has loomed over…
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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS | Foggy Morning On Top Mt. LeConte
It felt somehow magical watching this little deer delicately tread through the tall dewy grass completely indifferent to us. We were in its world, not the other way around. We all…
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CABINS Great Smoky Mountains HIKING NATIONAL PARKS TENNESSEE
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS | Mt. LeConte Summit – Sunset From Cliff Top
The wind blew pretty hard up at Cliff Top. Some ill-prepared people gave up early while others, like us and our cabin neighbors, waited it out. On their way back down…
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Tiny rugged cabins at the top of the mountain are the stuff dreams are made of. I'm not sure how I first heard about these cabins but I knew the…
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CABINS Great Smoky Mountains HIKING NATIONAL PARKS TENNESSEE
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS | Alum Cave Trail
At about the halfway point we stopped at Alum Cave, which was actually not a cave but still looked cave-y enough and provided welcome relief from the heat. As usual we…
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Our first order of business once arriving to Duck Harbor was to get on the trail and take full advantage of the day. The park ranger suggested that we hike to…
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As much as we try to avoid the crowds, witnessing "the first sunrise of the continental United States" was too hard to resist. We set our alarms for the ungodly hour…