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We headed back to Cataloochee yesterday to fish and see the elk. The colors are just about perfect right now. The problem with fishing is that the streams are absolutely full of leaves and trying to fish a nymph meant removing a leaf every other cast. On the way out (not in the park) we [...]
Monday was our last vacation day and we spent it over in the Tremont area of the park. I headed up Thunderhead Prong to do a little tenkara fly fishing. Thunderhead and Lynn Camp meet to form the Middle Prong of the Little River, otherwise known as Tremont. Lynn Camp is still closed to fishing [...]
After church on Sunday we hiked up to LeConte and out to Myrtle Point. Click any image for a larger version.
Today we took a trip into Cataloochee to fish Palmer Creek. First we hiked up to Lost Bottom Creek but then dropped back down to just above where Pretty Hollow Creek comes into Palmer. On Lost Bottom I was about to wade through a pool to head upstream and was stopped in my tracks. A [...]
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 [...]
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