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Mt. Le Conte Llama Train

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:26:32 +0000

Hike up Mt. Le Conte with our special guest video blogger Walter Wuthmann and the famous llamas that keep Le Conte Lodge stocked with supplies. You won’t believe what the llamas have for lunch up at the top! Click here to find out!

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Bird Talk… Spring Is On Its Way!

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:32:20 +0000

Go on a birding adventure and find out where some of those bird songs and calls are really coming from. Filmed during last year’s Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage. Click here to watch!

You can also watch the video in QuickTime or on YouTube or iTunes!

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Nordic Ski Patrol at Clingmans Dome

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:27:03 +0000

Meet some of the members of the park’s Nordic Ski Patrol, a volunteer group that serves as a contact point for visitors using Clingmans Dome Road during winter. Among their many responsibilities are reporting weather conditions, providing cold weather emergency medical services, and assisting with search and rescue. Click here or on the photo to meet them!

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Waiting for Wannetta…

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:20:03 +0000

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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Discovering Smoky Mountain Magic

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:27:50 +0000

Eighty years after its completion, Horace Kephart’s previously unpublished novel, Smoky Mountain Magic, has been released by Great Smoky Mountains Association. Click here or on the photo to hear the journey of the novel with Libby Kephart Hargrave, the author’s great-granddaughter.

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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK 75th Anniversary Reflections

admin — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:44:06 +0000

Employees and alumni of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its partners express the deep connections that inspire their daily efforts to protect, preserve and support our park. Visitors offer special sentiments of what the park means to them. This video is presented in two parts: Part 1 and Part 2.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Weaving Across the Generations

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:40:48 +0000

Here’s a wonderful video about local weaver Hope Reagan. It shows her weaving limited edition placemats and tablerunners to celebrate the park’s 75th anniversary. Click on the photo to see the short film.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Making Brooms Like Grandfather Taught Me

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:32:44 +0000

Here’s a fascinating look at David Ogle making brooms. He does it the way his grandfather showed him. It’s his way of celebrating the park’s 75th anniversary. You’ll love this peek inside his studio. Click on the picture below to watch the short film.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK He’s Gotta Be Part Monkey…

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:27:59 +0000

Will Blozan has hiked thousands of miles through Great Smoky Mountains National Park and climbed hundreds of feet into the tops of the park’s tallest hemlocks. As part of a very special hike hosted during the Wildflower Pilgrimage earlier this March, a group of us were able to follow this intrepid tree climber into the woods, to visit the SECOND LARGEST hemlock tree ever documented.

Click the photo below to watch the film!

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK The Frog Whisperer

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:44:46 +0000

Dr. Wayne Van Devender is my current front-runner for “Most Unusual and Awesome Talent.” He’s a biology professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina where he enjoys having intellectual discussions with both students and the frogs in the local ponds. Yes, the frogs.

Click the photo to watch the video starring Wayne Van Devender as “The Frog Whisperer.”