Category Archives: Reading Between the Lines of Our Guidebooks

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Reverse Drooling…?

March 22, 2007 – 2:06 pm

Where, Oh Where?
Where do we go between the time we start to fall and when we hit the ground?
I asked myself this question when I “awoke” suddenly and found myself lying face down in a very cold creek. I must’ve done a belly flop onto what felt like hundreds of hard rocks covered with [...]

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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Reviewer Loves Our Civil War Book!

March 16, 2007 – 12:27 pm

Our book “Civil War in the Smokies” was just reviewed by an expert: Andrew Wagenhoffer of Vancouver, Washington. He liked it alot!
Here’s some of what he said:
“As was common in many areas of the upper south, residents were badly abused by the regular and irregular forces both sides. Fisher’s writing powerfully evokes the [...]

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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Bob the Wheel

February 2, 2007 – 11:12 am

Why does Great Smoky Moutains National Park have the most accurate hiking information of all the national parks? How is it that the Smokies are able to acquire a level of precision in our trail profiles that is the envy of the every spy organization in the world?
Because we have a secret weapon.
His name [...]

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