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Kurt works at creating a smooth-handled hiking stick for Gail for the descent, since it was, you know, his fault that the hiking poles got left in the car, 2,424 feet below.

Kurt’s December Hikes

Even in cold December weather, Editor Kurt and his wife managed to get in a few good hikes. See where they hiked here.
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Mollie’s Butt? Scratch Britches Mountain?

Yes, the Great Smokies are full of strange and curious place-names.
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Coal Creek? Lake City? Rocky Top? What’s in a Name?

One Tennessee mountain town has a penchant for changing its name every few decades. And some folks tend to never give up on the old one(s).
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Gone But Not Forgotten

The sad tale of 10-year-old Vannie Cook and her disappearance in the mountains lives on in the Smokies.
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The Cabin in the Hotel

The long-held theory that a hotel had been built around a Trail 0f Tears-era cabin was finally verified as true in 2011. Since then, the cabin has been revealed to have been the home of a Cherokee man named Avery Vann, brother of Chief James Vann.
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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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