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Smoky Scout's Hiking Adventures: 2/1/09 - 3/1/09
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. Inside The Snow Globe. 2/16/09 – Alum Cave Trail/Trillium Gap Trail – 14 Miles. A scheme had been arranged to hike with Wendell Liemohn of Louisville, TN. Wendell’s hiking blog. To the Gregory Bald trailhead back in June. The hiking world is very big and very small! To learn about the trail before you go.). If you have hiked up Alum Cave Trail, you know the sights to be seen, but if not, let’s just look at the pictures for a while:. Everyone has a photo from inside the cave.
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900 miles: Chimney Tops Trail
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Thursday, December 24, 2009. Sarah and I hiked this trail on our 20th anniversary weekend. We'd always wanted to do this trail, but it's not recommended for small kids because it's a VERY strenuous trail (straight up) and because the rock outcrop at the top of the trail is dangerous. So our anniversary weekend when we were all alone was the perfect time to tackle it. As you come around a corner on the ridge you can see the Chimney Tops in the distance. It's a pretty imposing formation. After the hike Sar...
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900 miles: Brushy Mountain Trail
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Monday, April 22, 2013. New Miles Completed: 4.5. Total Miles Hiked: 11.8. Spring has finally sprung here in the Smokies! It's a glorious time of the year for hiking and I took full advantage yesterday. I had been to Brushy Mountain twice before, but both times had come up the Trillium Gap trail which comes up from Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. Brushy Mountain trail starts in Porters Flats, out at the end of the Greenbrier Road, a mile along the Porters Creek trail. Where you can see them all. Once yo...
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900 miles: Rabbit Creek & Hannah Mountain (partial) trails
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Monday, January 20, 2014. Rabbit Creek and Hannah Mountain (partial) trails. New Miles Completed: 7.0. Total Miles Hiked: 14.0. Started with wet feet, and ended with wet feet… Everything in between was glorious! The Rabbit Creek trail goes between Abrams Creek Ranger Station and Cades Cove. Hannah Mountain trail goes from Parson Branch road up to Abrams Creek. Today I did pieces of each, but didn't finish up either of them. Crossing of Mill Creek at the beginning of the Rabbit Creek trail. As the trail d...
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900 miles: Cooper Road Trail
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Monday, August 22, 2011. Trail Miles Completed: 1.7. Trail Miles Hiked: 6.2. Cooper Road trail runs from Abrams Creek out to Cades Cove. On this day we planned to just to a little chunk from Abrams Creek up to the junction with Gold Mine Trail at Cane Gap. I had done the first mile (up to the junction with Little Bottoms trail and campsite #1) several times before but had never been beyond campsite #1. Duncan at the trail head. Duncan at the fire ring in Campsite #1. August 22, 2011 at 11:46 AM. My ultim...
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900 miles: Cooper Road Trail
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Monday, January 21, 2013. New Miles Completed: 5.7. Total Miles Hiked: 13. 1 If a trail has a name like "Wet Bottoms," there's probably a reason. 2 Planning to hike a trail named "Wet Bottoms" a mere day or two after a week-long torrential downpour shows poor judgement. It's a beautiful day, and it's a holiday so I'm not at work. What else would I be doing other than hiking? Once the sun started to peek over the ridge it lit up the western end of the cove spectacularly. From Abrams Creek campground to th...
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900 miles: Anthony Creek Loop
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Sunday, November 27, 2011. New Trail Miles Completed: 8.7. Total Trail Miles Hiked: 13.2. I've had my eye on this loop for a while. I had actually intended to do it as an overnight backpacking trip, but decided on the spur of the moment to make a day-hike out of it on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Anthony Creek Trailhead @ Cades Cove picnic area. I have to start out by saying one thing about this loop - there are a LOT of ROCKS on these trails! Anthony Creek - Russell Field trail junction. I took the ...
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900 miles: here we go...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009. These pages are to document my plan to hike all 900 miles of trails. In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I'm starting this blog in Dec. 2009 so first I'll list the trails hiked since I moved to Tennessee in 1999 til now. Our family did lots of short hikes and partial trails during that time, but I've only listed completed trails below. Total mileage hiked: 8.7. 4 April, 2005. As a volunteer leader with the Annual Wildflower Pilgrimage. Total mileage hiked: 5. 7 April, ...
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900 miles: Brushy Mountain summit via Trillium Gap Trail
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Saturday, June 25, 2011. Brushy Mountain summit via Trillium Gap Trail. Trail Miles Completed: 2.1. Trail Miles Hiked: 6.6. A group of guys from church do hiking trips once in a while and this weekend we had a trip to Brushy Mountain planned. Up early and at the Grotto Falls parking area by 7 am! Here's our crew getting ready to hit the trail: Greg, Duncan, Emery, Jack and Brad. We headed up Trillium Gap trail and made good time up to Grotto Falls. This early in the morning the light was dim and mist...
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900 miles: Cooper Road - Gold Mine - Cane Creek Trails
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Sunday, October 9, 2011. Cooper Road - Gold Mine - Cane Creek Trails. Trail Miles Completed: 5.3. Trail Miles Hiked: 16.2. Autumn is upon us, and what better time of year for hiking is there? Trail marker at the park boundary. Old barn just outside the park boundary at the end of the Gold Mine trail. Coming back down the Gold Mine trail. Trail marker at Cane Gap. It was nearly dark when I arrived so I put up my tent, gathered some firewood and got a nice fire going before cooking dinner. I spent a wo...
