Saturday, March 21, 2009

This Actually Happened.

Here we see a plate recently recovered from the archives.
Cheston cabin. Autumn, Tennessee, around the turn of the century.
Photo par : Elspeth Iralu.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Mount LeConte

There we were on the Great Smoky Mountain Thrust Sheet in March, and it was raining. Today at about 11:52, Rocky said "let's go up mt Leconte." We said ok.

We got wet. It was cold. 13 miles, and fantastic. Smoky mtns Smoking. Fueled by avocados, at the top Dad says "I know where there's a hot tub."

We traded in.


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we win.



Thursday, March 12, 2009

Scale


Forest : Trees for scale.



Plateau : Plateau for scale.

Savage Gulf, three days by leaf and rock, taller talls and sunk sinks. Underground rivers.