February 09th, 2013

02/09/2013

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Morning y'all,

It's a beautiful morning up top. The high yesterday reached 34 degrees. The low was down to 15 degrees. It was 21 degrees and clear at 7am observation. The mountain received .14" of rain yesterday afternoon. The snow total up top is still hovering around 3 inches. Alum Cave Trail is in pretty good shape. There are a 2-3 icy sections, but for the most part there is plenty of snow and crunchy ice to provide traction on your way up top. Be sure to pack extra layers, socks, food and water if you plan on reaching the summit! Enjoy the day!
 


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Brenda S
02/09/2013 8:33am

I would so love to be there........

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Debi
02/09/2013 8:59am

Brrr! Crunchy cold everywhere today. 3 degrees here.

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Anthony W.
02/09/2013 9:19am

May the ghosts of Henry David, Ed, Walt, Mary, Terry & Michel pull up a chair and chew the fat with ye.

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DOOD CICLE
02/09/2013 9:35am

I'm starting to flip out down hear in the city. I need to come up their.

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Ryan--LA
02/09/2013 10:34am

Same here Dood Cicle, my friends wonder why I"ll drive for 750 miles and 11.5 hrs one day. Climb Leconte to the lodge and eat a turkey sandwitch on wheat at Cliff Tops the next day and then drive home the day after that. I tell them, if you have to ask you just don't get it. Sometimes you have to get out and recharge the old batteries. I was getting a hair cut at my barber one day, and a 94 year old man was sitting next to me. He stood up and said to all of us, don't wait for SOMEDAY to do things that you want to do. Someday will never come and you will find yourself 94 years old and complaining to a bunch of younger bucks in the barber shop on what you wish you would have done when you were younger. Make it happen, you will not regret it.

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Randy Carnell
02/09/2013 10:36am

Well Said and SO true Ryan!!

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JEAN STUCZYNSKI
02/09/2013 11:20am

Ryan, Im up near Chicago and I do the same thing...several times a year...within the next 3 weeks in fact. Last time I was in the Smoky's my husband and I were involved in a motorcycle accident and I broke a leg so March will be my 1st time back hiking since then. I feel the "weather" and such but nothing will keep me off Leconte...or any other trail in the smoky's! Happy hiking!

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Denise
02/09/2013 11:12am

Yes! Great words Ryan!

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Cece
02/09/2013 1:48pm

So true Ryan. My dad died a year ago. I know for sure, he and my mom who is still living wish they had followed that advice. I will drive 9 hours to hike up, spend the night, and drive home the next. I agree. If you have to ask why you are missing something.

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Dewayne
02/09/2013 10:31pm

Ryan,

You hit the core of why we hike Laconte and GSM, love it, well said my friend!!

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m ha
02/10/2013 3:13am

In the summers of those years we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the trees , hills and the plain to the mountains we had a lovly time .

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doug y
02/10/2013 7:50am

Ryan --LA: well said, well said; I'll continue hiking, camping, and backpacking until I can no longer move; if I have to crawl on my knees to reach the lodge I'll do so ! They can spread my ashes up there on Cliff Tops. Not long until a new season opens at the lodge and I'm going to try to schedule to assit with the air lift if I can. G'day

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m ha
02/10/2013 11:22pm

Reference book of ( A Farewell to Arms ) by Ernest Hemingway.

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Brenda
02/11/2013 11:03am

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