Last day on the Applachian Trail
Trip Start
Mar 16, 2007
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Trip End
Mar 25, 2007
Great Smoky Mtn. National Park,
Tennessee,
United States
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Mossy log
We wake up really early with the sun and a couple of the other campers. We begin the long decent into Fontana Dam by passing through early morning mist
Trail through the mist
and the songs of birds finally awakening to the spring. As we continue to decend the temperature rises drastically, soon we are hiking in tshirts for the first time on the trip.We come across a
Toad on the trail
toad and a ring-neck snake, and once down out of the highest peaks I notice some bear scat for the first time.
ring-neck snake on the trail
The only climb of the day is to the top of shuckstack mountain where an old forest fire watch tower is located.
climbing the shuckstack fire tower
We climb to the top for a nice view of the surrounding mountains and our destination below.
view from shuckstack mtn
The last decent goes quickly and we are soon walking across the dam
Fontana Dam
and to the waiting van. Our hiking adventure along the AT is now finished.
End of the trail
