 Temperature
52 degrees expecting snow higher in the mountains and falling
temperature Sunday night below 32 degrees.
I caught the shuttle (A Walk in the Woods) from the
Grand Prix at 9:30 am. from Gatlinburg to Newfound Gap. The
young fellow who shuttled the 4 of us was very interesting man.
We no more than got started toward the Gap when he pulled out the
latest weather report and had one of the other hikers read it out
loud - basically the same report I'd heard on TV that morning - but
he was concerned for our safety and wanted us to know what we were
in for higher in the mountains. Also, he wasn't interested in
the usual conversation like where you from or what's your
destination. This young man told us al about the Smokies and its history. We saw smoke that is actually
evaporation from the trees and ground vegetation that rises and
looks like campfire smoke, thus the blue mountains are called the
Smokey Mountains. |
