Here are your trip pics (nearly 400 of them)! OK, so we were a little camera happy, but who knows how soon we'll be able to go back? We did some of the coolest hikes (I even climbed my first mountain, (Mount Le Conte), checked out a local brewery, out ran some bears (OK, we didn't do that), supported some local artists, visited North Carolina for the first time and cooked like mad in our kitchen overlooking the Smokies!
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400 Pictures!!!! When did you guys just hike? Sounds and looks like a great time. Next time you have to take Sandy, I'll meet you at the endpoint....Ha
I know! You and Sandy would love it out there (great hiking AND a great brewery)! See you tonight?
What made you choose the Smoky Mountains?
I'm curious...the South holds NO interest for me whatsoever (hillbillies and all, "Deliverance," bitterness over losing the Civil War, etc.).
Our recent (and ONLY if I can help it!) trip to Key West, Florida cemented it for me; NO MORE TRIPS to the South!
Too much damn humidity; Key West is a lovely time if you want to get liquored up every day...which we just about did...but we agreed we never have to go back again...
As for hikes, I prefer the snow capped hikes along the Cascades in Washington state...love the air quality and temperature there.
Actually, Danny, I do agree with you about the weather and some of the retro attitudes in the South. Besides being hungry, nothing makes me crabbier than hot, humid weather. We chose to go to the Smoky Mountains to support our national parks and to see what the big deal was. Now I know! It's simply beautiful out there with a great artist community too! September was a great time to go. No screaming kids on the trails and the leaves were just starting to change. I do enjoy the Rockies, but there's something old and familiar about the Appalachians that have weathered so much more than the West. I can't wait to return in the winter. The Smokies get seven feet of precipitation a year, so the snow capped mountains will be gorgeous and plentiful!
P.S. The PC name for a hillbilly is an Appalachian American. :)
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