Monday, February 9, 2009

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.








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