Great Smoky Mountains National Park Podcasts & Blog » Marti Smith http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog Enjoy the Smokies Courtesy of the Great Smoky Mountains Association! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:26:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Cultural Heritage Site http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/cultural-heritage-site/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/cultural-heritage-site/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:01:22 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=545 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.

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/cultural-heritage-site/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Every Trail in the Park — All 900 Miles of Them (!!) http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/every-trail-in-the-park-all-900-miles-of-them/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/every-trail-in-the-park-all-900-miles-of-them/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:56:46 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=363 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?
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Suppertime! Yummy.
Suppertime!
Marti has some hardy friends who hike with her.
Marti and Friends
She had to cross creeks…
Marti and Friends
She had to climb over and under “windfalls” or “blowdowns” or “deadfalls” as these fallen trees are called.
Marti and Friends
And there were bugs!
Marti and Friends
Here is a friend showing how a night in the woods looks. All the luxuries of…the middle of nowhere.
Marti and Friends

Whew…that was a lot of adventure!

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/every-trail-in-the-park-all-900-miles-of-them/feed/ 0 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK After Nine Years… Success! http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/after-nine-years-success/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/after-nine-years-success/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:32:59 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/videoblog/?p=8 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!

Click the photo below to see my video tribute to Marti.

900 Miler

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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 pounded out.

Marti hopes to get those last pesky miles done next spring. Because she has to work pretty hard, because she has to go on Clingmans Dome Road to get to those last trails, and because Clingmans Dome Road closes on December 1st of this year and stays closed until April 1st of 2008, she reckons she’ll have to wait to reach her goal!

]]> http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/884-miles-done-only-16-left-2/feed/ 1 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK The Things We Have to Do (to Keep Bears Alive and Out of Our Food and Trash)! http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/the-things-we-have-to-do-to-keep-bears-alive-and-out-of-our-food-and-trash/ http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/the-things-we-have-to-do-to-keep-bears-alive-and-out-of-our-food-and-trash/#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 15:47:40 +0000 admin http://www.thegreatsmokymountains.org/blog/?p=247 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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