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Smokies Trip 2008

2008 Anniversary Trip to Smoky Mountain National Park

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Where else would you expect us to eat?
Timbercreek Rental Office - Wear Valley
pictures don't do the slopes of the driveway and access roads justice getting to this place; if it snows forget about going anywhere
The "Cabin"
all the conveniences
dining area - note rockers on porch to left
from the Loft where the pool table and other bedroom and full bath are
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls: one half of American Gothic
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls: the rest of American Gothic
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls: Lar in his element
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls: water and ice at the falls
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls: Mare bushwacking her way to the lunch spot
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls: note Leaterman tool substitute for the forgotten pot grabber
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls: the falls from below; note: climbing down here was illegal
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls: the Smokies in winter - looking South toward Elkmont
Hike 1 - Laurel Falls
from below by the pond
Mare always obliges Lar with a pose for perspective
Cades Cove - let's just say the deer are tame here, and more numerous than cattle
Cades Cove
Hike 2 - Abrams Falls: the tree is in focus and Mare is in the sun; temperature is 39F
Hike 2 - Abrams Falls: too nice, too perfect
Hike 2 - Abrams Falls: at the falls; it rained hard last night so there was plenty of water
Hike 2 - Abrams Falls: same lunch routine
Hike 2 - Abrams Falls: lunchtime
Hike 2 - Abrams Falls: Abrams Creek
Hike 2 - Abrams Falls: note the fair Wood Nymph that appeared in the distance
Hike 3 - Baskin Creek: can't come up with any new trail sign photo ideas
Hike 3 - Baskin Creek
Hike 3 - Baskin Creek
Hike 3 - Baskin Creek
Hike 3 - Baskin Creek: Roaring Fork of Little Pigeon River
Hike 3 - Baskin Creek: Roaring Fork
Little River: 2.9" of rain overnight
Little River: at the Sinks - it is really pouring through; 2.9" of rain overnight
Little River: Meigs Creek Falls into Little River; bad day for the Meigs Creek Trail
Hike 4 - Schoolhouse Gap
Hike 4 - Schoolhouse Gap
Hike 4 - Schoolhouse Gap
Hike 4 - Schoolhouse Gap: private house at the park boundary - it is their table nicely placed for us hikers; the McClanahan's
Hike 4 - Schoolhouse Gap
Hike 4 - Schoolhouse Gap: NP Boundary marker at the table
Hike 4 - Schoolhouse Gap
Hike 4 - Schoolhouse Gap
the grill was barely usable - it took a little creative engineering and a bungee cord
The Gloves are Found: another little miracle that proves tha God loves old people
Hike 5 - West Prong and Bote Mountain: West Prong of Laurel Creek blasts through Campsite 18
Hike 5 - West Prong and Bote Mountain
Hike 5 - West Prong and Bote Mountain
lunch - the usual, but in warm sunshine by the creek
we made a bench from the firewood
the fateful Lead Cove Hike bad decision point revisited
the fateful decision maker lives to tell about it
one of our 95 new duck buddies
we call him Red
who you lookin' at, boy
Larry and his new buddy
Larry reads a passage from the Early Church Fathers to his newfound flock
Hike 6 - Old Sugarlands Trail: the requisite trail sign picture
West Fork, Little Pigeon River
the Sugarlands settlement cemetery; oldest stone that was legible was for someone born in 1824 and died in 1910
Larry reads the largest headstone
we found the trail as it left the park and here Larry is standing at its continuation after passing under I-40 near Waterville NC
the trail sign as it leaves I-40; the section that Larry and Will hiked in 2002 was too far north of this location to be on the sign; the Davenport Gap shelter is the last one inside Smoky Mountain NP
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