After church on Sunday we hiked up to LeConte and out to Myrtle Point. Click any image for a larger version.

Wednesday we went back to the same area we had visited Saturday and did another loop. One interesting thing about this part is that Finley Cane trail is actually a creek as it goes under the road. There is literally no trail, you just rock hop through. I was impressed with how pretty Finley Cane [...]

Back when we did the Tremont overnight loop, we had thought about adding on the Little Greenbrier Trail. But we were both exhausted and Christy was battling severe blisters, so we left it off. Saturday we made it back and just did a quick out and back. The trail is up the whole way, but [...]

Saturday we did a big loop in the park: Jakes Creek to Cucumber Gap to Little River to Rough Creek to Sugarland Mountain to Husky Gap to Little River. There wasn’t much elevation, but it was a long hike since we even did the out and back to campsite 30 just to make sure we [...]

Saturday we hiked from Elkmont over to the Sinks and back. It was a long hike, but there was not serious elevation gain/loss. We almost literally ran into a bear – I marked of 10 steps! Thankfully he was trying his best to get away from us. Christy also had a snake scare. As I [...]

Saturday we hiked a big loop in the Sugarlands area. We started at the Sugarlands visitor center by taking the Cove Mountain trail. Then we picked up the Laurel Falls trail, over to the Sugarlands Mountain trail, then the Huskey Gap trail, and finally a couple miles of 441 back to the parking lot. The [...]

Christy and I did a 31 mile backpacking loop starting at Wear Valley road this Friday and Saturday. The highlights:

Coming out at the Townsend Wye to tons of people tubing and laying around sun bathing. As it turns out we had forgotten spoons, so with all the picnics going on we were able to [...]

This weekend we decided to re-hike the Gregory Bald Loop out of the Twentymile area. We had planned it as an overnight, but we were making such good time that we just did the full loop instead. Plus, the campsite near the bald was packed full, so it wasn’t exactly going to be a wilderness [...]