Great Smoky Mountain National Park - Tennessee

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The Smokies are lush and green and definitely smoky.  The blue haze which hovers over these mountains, hence their name, was evident, but not so much that we couldn’t see the mountains.  We drove to Clingman’s Dome which at 6,643 feet is the highest spot in the Smokies.  This doesn’t sound like much when compared to the Rockies and even the Sierras, but we did climb a while.  The seven mile road which leads to the lookout on “Top of Old Smoky” stops at one-half mile from the top.  I made this walk about halfway and decided the fog filtering down on us meant I wouldn’t see anything at the top.  Ray, of course, continued so he could get to the “Top of Old Smoky” just because it was there.