The highest point in the Great Smokies. You are going to want a camera for that. If you forget your camera you are going to be so glad you have that fancy smart phone with the camera built in. Unless the charge is so low you can't take picture.
Yep.
We drove to the top, hiked the strenuous (and I mean strenuous here folks - like Harpers Ferry) last half mile and there at 6643 feet we realise the phone doesn't have enough charge for a picture. I am consoling myself with the fact that you couldn't really see anything anyway, it was very smoky up there.
On the way down a nice old man with bandy legs told.us we look like we should be hiking the Appalacian Trail. We had a nice little conversation as we walked down the rest of the way with him - he was the perfect speed for my short legs, a little slow for Husband. I am going to believe that when he said we looked like we should be on the AT he was referring to our speed and gear not the fact that we are smelly, sweaty and generally unkempt like AT hikers tend to be. The old man has actually done 1500 of the 2100 miles, not all before he got so old either. There's hope folks, we may yet succeed.
Pictures of the view not far from the top of it all. A pretty decent substitute since you can actually see something.
tsk tsk
ReplyDelete1. I love how its a universal rule that AT hikers must be "unkempt" at best and look like grissly gross anorexic mountain men at worst!
ReplyDelete2. I just read this post out loud and Scottie said "Hey give a shoutout to Wednesday! She made it all the way to the Smokey Mountains!" I did not tell him the title of the yet unread following post. :)
3. ...strenuous but REWARDING!!