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Great Smoky Mtn NP Trip

Trip #?... The Great Smoky National Park is quite an attraction along the Appalachian trail. Clingman's Dome is the 2nd highest peak in the East at over 6,600 ft. We will start at Cosby Campground and hike South to Fontana Dam. We really crossed a new boundary in lightweight backpacking on this trip with base pack weights at 15 lbs each. That's a long ways away from the ~30 lb packs and heavey food/water loads we carried 10 years ago.

 

8 days
65 Miles
Elevation Profile
Food Plan
Trail Mileposts
 
 
Daily Waypoints
Pics
Miles/Day, Total Miles
Day 1 (Sat): Tricornder Shelter
8.3 / 8.3
Day 2 (Sun): Icewater Shelter
12.6 / 20.9
Day 3 (Mon): Mt. Collins Shelter
7.6 / 28.5
Day 4 (Tues): Double Springs Shelter
6.2 / 34.7
Day 5 (Wed): Derrick Knob Shelter
7.3 / 42.0
Day 6 (Thurs): Spence Field Shelter
6.2 / 48.2
Day 7 (Fri): Mollies Ridge Shetler  
6.1 / 54.3
Day 8 (Sat): Fontana Dam
10.7 / 65.0
Total
65.0

 

Lessons Learned:

Services Used:

  • A Walk in the Woods shuttle service to take us from Frontana Dam to Cosby Campground
  • Lots of links that will get you a lot of what you need can be found here: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dunigan/gsmnp/