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Spent a week in the Smokies, enjoyed our stay but the area is a bit too touristy for us. Good hiking though. Check out the BLOG!


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Cades Cove is a lush valley surrounded by mountains and one of the most popular destinations in the Great Smokies. To be honest, we found it kinda boring.

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The loop is a one way road

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At the far end of the loop was this hike…the day we did it, the weather was warm and sunny and the trail was busy.

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Typical bridge

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Enjoying a really nice day!

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Abram falls

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One of the restored cabines in Cades Cove.

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My favourite picture….these people had the right idea, the view here was spectacular!

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We did the Rainbow Falls trail

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Another rustic bridge

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At Rainbow Falls

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We thought we’d drive to Gatlinburg and walk around on this crappy day ….but everyone else had the same idea so we got the heck outta there.

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More of Gatlinburg

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Christmas decorations going up everywhere

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A grey day in Pigeon Forge

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Our site for the week, woke up to frost this AM (ntice that the grass is white) it was only 27 F last night.

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There are cabins on the mountains everywhere here but I think they went a bit overboard on this hillside. Do you think the people in that house on the left feel just a little bit exposed??

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Entrance to the Ramsey Cascades hike

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The trail follows the Ramsay prong of the Little Pigeon River

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The water was crystal clear!

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The Ramsay Cascades Trail head, 8 miles return trip and notice the sign…it says parking area for the trail closed on Monday, Nov 8 and the date stamp on this pic is Nov 7. Made it here just in time!

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Beginning of the hike…just enough white stuff to make it really pretty.

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Snowball fight anyone??

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Another one of those rustic bridges but yikes, this one is a bit icy today

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Another bridge…Don’t let go, don’t slip!

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Just about at the falls

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Worth the hike to see the Ramsay Cascades. Elevation here was 4,400 ft.

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Now that I look at this, I think we were crazy…this was up at the falls

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Had to hug this tree!



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