Clingmans Dome to Andrews bald

[cavscout]

These were taken late summer in the Smokies around Clingmans Dome. The Appalachian Trail passes right over the peak of Clingmans Dome and there are 100's of miles of trail within the Great Smokey Mountain National Forest.

View just below the summit



Trail to Andrews Bald


View from Andrews bald. Somewhere out in the mist was Lake Fontana about 12 miles away.

[cavscout]

This is Currahee Mountain of Band of Brothers Fame. Hopefully these will give a bit of appreciation of what 3 miles up and 3 miles down means

First view of the mountain


You can see the rock outcropping where we are headed


The trail up and up and up


The View South. Currahee is the last mountain in the Appalachian Range as you can see.

[Southern Breeze]

Great pics, thanks for posting them.
One of my uncles trained at Camp Toccoa with the 506 Parachute regiment during WWII. He made the Normandy and Market Garden jumps.

[george7]

Beautiful scenery!

[Highlander31]

Nice photos.

[SFCRick]

nice pics

[Rollo]

It's so nice !

[cessna152towser]

Super scenery, well worth the climb for that final view.

[Drillagent]

Great pics! Maybe in the future I need to try and walk as much of the AT as I can. At the Big Meadow visitors center there's a pair of hiking boots donated by a woman who walked the entire trail. They look pretty rough, and the caption says her feet hurt whenever she looks at them. Sounds like a challenge to me.

[JRB]

Awesome shots. I love that area. I haven't visited in the Smokies for a very long time but hope to take a backpacking trip down there sometime next year.