Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Great Smokey Mountains National Park

On Tuesday morning we drove just over the NC/TN border into the Great Smokey Mountains National Park to the Big Creek area. Big Creek includes campgrounds, hiking and some pretty good river walking. The reason for the trip was the famous Midnight Hole - a collection of big rocks perfect for jumping into the (freezing cold) water below.  A few natural water falls were also found on the trail. 
In the mountains, the air temperature was just about 70 degrees - the water - as you can imagine was quite cold. Aster didn't seem to mind. 
Zac didn't seem to mind, but quote "holy crap, that was so so so cold". Both dog and man shivered like babies afterwards. 
Looked like paradise in the mountains - with blue water all the way to the bottom. 
Nature dog - back at it! 

1 comment:

Stephanie Jabbour said...

great pics! come'on carrie- you didn't jump into the midnight hole?!!? ;-)