Tag: day trip

• Lessons From The Trail

  Listen To Your Body After hiking all day, it’s finally time to go home. However, the parking area is miles away, and, being impatience, you decide to walk faster in order to arrive at your car sooner. I’ve found myself in similar circumstances several times and have come to understand, that, when I observe myself…

  Lessons From The Trail, Nature

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• Sugarloaf Mountain Park

  Following a hike at Benton Falls, I later found Ocoee Dam No. 2 – a hydroelectric dam along the Ocoee River, in Polk County, Tennessee, built between 1912-1913. At the adjacent Sugarloaf Mountain Park, I learned that materials to construct this rock-filled crib-type dam had been quarried from a hillside across the river, with structural…

  Photography, Structures

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• Clingmans Dome In The Smoky Mountains

  

  I recently visited Clingmans Dome in the Smoky Mountains. Located along the state line between Tennessee and North Carolina, it’s the highest point in Tennessee at 6,643 feet, as well as the highest point in the Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s a very popular tourist destination, so visitors should arrive early if they don’t wish…

  Nature, Photography

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