December 3 is a special day at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s the day that Wannetta Johnson brings a poinsettia to Park Headquarters. Click here or on the photo to find out why she has made this special trip every year for the past 35 years.
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Check out the Icewater Spring Shelter on the Appalachian Trail. Click here or on the photo to learn what to expect when visiting a backcountry shelter.
There are so many things to do at Newfound Gap: check out the stunning views, visit the Rockefeller Memorial and stand where President Roosevelt stood, and straddle the Tennessee/North Carolina state line. Sound like fun? It was!
Click here or on the photo below to check out all there is to do at Newfound Gap!
Something you always wonder when you’re talking to AT hikers is:
are you really going to make it? 2,100 miles is a loooong way…
But thanks to Trailjournals.com, I was able to check up on the progress of some of the guys I met in April, and I was pleasantly surprised at the results. Here’s [...]
Okay, so it wasn’t really a stampede. But the Appalachian Trail in the Smokies gets quite crowded during the last two weeks in April when the thru-hikers arrive.
Despite the fact that they still had about 1,900 more miles to go, a bunch of hikers were nice enough to pause and talk to me (while [...]
April is thru-hiker season in the Smokies! Courtney Lix interviewed ten hikers and produced this exciting short film.
Click the photo below to see the short film starring 10 AT hikers.
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April 11, 2008
Meet Pine Knot, Chill, and Sitesee!
Just as the early spring wildflowers appear to be near their peak of bloom, the parade of northbound spring thru-hikers traversing the Great Smoky Mountains is simultaneously reaching a crescendo.
Coming into work early this morning, I encountered a half dozen thru-hikers clustered at the boundary of Gatlinburg and [...]
“I’m Rabbit’s Foot,” he says. “That’s my trail name.”
He’s an AT thru-hiker, tall, with straight, sun-bleached blond hair and a tan that highlights his light blue eyes. He’d spent the night in town and was standing alongside the road, hoping to hitch a ride back to the AT when my boss picked him up and [...]