Mount Le Conte

Waterfall on the hike down Mt Le Conte

Something I haven’t done in a long time, is go hiking, and it has been a really long time since I have been on a major hike. This weekend I was able to go to Gatlinburg with Danielle and her family. 15 of her family, friends climbed up the mountain. We started at 5:30 am & finished at 3:00 pm. Everyone else started later and finished before we did. Took us about 9 hours to climb. Would like to go back sometime with my nephew or someone else and try to make it up there faster, maybe get up there in about four hours. Mount Le Conte has several different trails to go up. We tool the Alan Cove trail, a little over 5 mile hike, and the top’s elevation is over 6,000 ft. Her family was able to reserve a cabin on top of Mt. Le Conte, it was awesome to be able to stay up there for the night and come back down the next morning after an excellent breakfast. The dinner was very good too, get a little hungry after climbing up the mountain. I can’t wait to go back next year!

Danielle & I, on top of Mt Le Conte, in the lodge area.

After we made it to the bottom!!!

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