East Tennessee mountains

Bricky & Ronny on the Appalachian Trail on a cold winter day. Maryville TN in the background.














Great Smoky Mountains National Park - wow, what a beautiful sight.
















Looking east over Fontana Lake, NC. From the mountaintop on Gregory Bald, TN.














This'll keep you cool. We have lots of icicles in the Smokies - the combination of heavy rainfall, rocky soil, steep mountainsides makes for lots of runoff and many drips. Combine that with the cold weather of the high elevation mountains and you'll see lots of frozen water.


Lake Calderwood, TN in the foreground. Snow on the Unicoi mountains in the background - snow is all over the Citico Creek Wilderness along the TN/NC border.















View from Appalachian Trail near Cosby TN, looking west back toward Maryville.

Cades Cove Mountain, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN.

Beautiful color in Tennessee sandstone - this photo taken summer 2008 in Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, TN. Near one of the Indian Dome Rock Houses, natural overhangs/caves that were used as shelters for thousands of years.

Waterfalls

Bald River Falls at normal winter flow. February 2009. Tennessee


Bald River Falls at minimal flow - October 2007 during a drought.
Both photos taken from the same spot - note the rock formations. Tennessee.



Jane is amazed at these huge icicles. Great Smoky Mtns.


I'm enjoying the chance to see the Walls of Jericho framework. This area (along the Tennessee/Alabama border) was affected by the serious drought and water levels are way below normal. Most of the time, it would be impossible to climb where I'm sitting as water would be ripping, roaring, overflowing, swirling over, around and through these rocks.



One of thousands of miles of clear, cold waterways that tumble down from the Great Smoky Mountains.




Doublecamp Creek at the edge of the Citico Creek Wilderness in east Tennessee. Doublecamp Creek flows into Citico Creek about two miles downstream from here.





Burgess Falls near Cookeville Tennessee. This is one of my favorite waterfalls.