Category Archives: Things NOT To Do in The Park!

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Bad Smoke in the Smokies

Here’s the view today from the Look Rock Webcam. Looks pretty smoky doesn’t it?

It’s an 800 acre fire with a new little sister fire started, the NPS thinks, by lightning during an all-to-brief shower!! Not enough water to help, but lightning to set another fire?!? Bad luck.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Reverse Drooling…?

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 [...]

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Incomplete Burials of Loved Ones

Due to the failure of the survivors to fully “dispose” of their dear departed, new regulations have been promulgated in the Park.
In the case of an “attempted” burial, as far as the rangers are concerned, a miss is as good as a mile….