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Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Land of the Everlasting Hills

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  • HIKING TRAILS LEAD TO HUNDREDS OF SPOTS AFFORDING BROADSIDE VIEWS LIKE THIS the mountain produce exhilaration that encourages the climber to hurry on to the top. And when the top is reached! As the magical, mystifying haze that enshrouds the Great Smokies seems to defy description, so also the view from the top of LeConte has never yet been accurately pictured except in the mind of the beholder. The pen fails for lack of befitting adjectives; the brush is even more helpless; the camera sees all, but only in one direction. The human eye itself is faulty, and hours spent on the top of LeConte still leaves much to be seen. Those who frequently climb to this great outlook say that at each visit they find new wonders. At times the entire world is shut from view by the oceans of clouds that float up and around the mountain. Sunrise at such a time provides a spectacle indescribably beautiful. Storms spend themselves between the "top" and the valley below. In winter a great film of hoary frost, a blanket of snow, or a crust of ice transforms a view of nature's great show place LeConte into a great white giant.
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