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Cultural Heritage Site

April 14, 2009 – 12:01 pm

GSMA store manager Marti Smith discovered one of the rarely discussed cultural heritage sites inside the park while hiking with the indomitable Smoky Mountains Hiking Club in the Greenbrier area a few days ago.

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Every Trail in the Park — All 900 Miles of Them (!!)

June 4, 2008 – 1:56 pm

Enjoy these photos of the last leg in Marti Smith’s 9-year-effort to walk every trail in the Park! Way to go Marti!
Who is that masked woman?

Suppertime! Yummy.

Marti has some hardy friends who hike with her.

She had to cross creeks…

She had to climb over and under “windfalls” or “blowdowns” or “deadfalls” as these fallen [...]

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After Nine Years… Success!

June 2, 2008 – 12:32 pm

Marti Smith, the manager of our stores at the Gatlinburg Welcome Center and the Parkway Welcome Center, is a very dedicated hiker.  This past Saturday, she finished hiking every single one of the 150 trails in the national park.  It took nine years, but she did it!
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884 Miles Down, Only 16 Left to Go!

November 6, 2007 – 3:37 pm

This is a photo of Marti Smith and her hiking friend Liz after a (mere) 23 mile hike last week.

Marti, intrepid GSMA manager of our two Gatlinburg stores, has now hiked 884 miles of the 900 miles of trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (Whew!)
That means there are only 16 miles left to be [...]

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The Things We Have to Do (to Keep Bears Alive and Out of Our Food and Trash)!

May 9, 2007 – 10:47 am

From Marti Smith — here’s how you keep bears from learning to associate people with food. Remember: A Fed Bear Is a Dead Bear!

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