Mount Le Conte

Wow

... at Mount Le Conte.

Mm-hmm.

We were constantly driving at 8,000 to 9,000 feet.

Not too busy.

Alum Cave Trail, 11 miles up, top of Mount Leconte.

There's a lodge.

You can get tickets from the ranger station.

All right.

I was hiking to Mount LeConte.

It's been 15, 20 years ago.

It was pouring down rain.

It is a Ted Russell Tuesday, 85-51, corner of Kingston Pike, Walker Springs Road.

And the yodeling can be heard all the way at the top of the Smoky Mountains from Mount LeConte.

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In 1911 I was told by Mr. H.M. Ramseur that when he laid out the route of the railroad from Asheville to Murphy he ran a line of levels from a known datum on the road to the top of Clingman and that the result was four sixes, 6,666 feet above sea level.

It is probable that second place among the peaks of Appalachia may belong either to Clingman Dome or Guyot or LeConte of the Smokies or to Balsam Cone of the Black Mountains.

In any case the great Smoky Mountains are the master chain of the Appalachian system, the greatest mass of highland east of the Rockies.

This segment of the Unakas forms the boundary between North Carolina and Tennessee from the Big Pigeon River to the McDaniel Bald.

Although some parts of the Smokies are very rugged with sharp changes of elevation, yet the range as a whole has no one dominating peak.

Mount Guyot, Mount LeConte, and Clingman Dome are all over 6,600 feet and under 6,700 according to the most trustworthy measurements.

Many miles of the divide rise 6,000 feet above sea level with only small undulations like ocean swells.

The most rugged and difficult part of the Smokies and of the United States east of Colorado is in the Sawtooth Mountains between Collins and Guyot at the headwaters of the Oconaluftee River.