We are spending a few days in Tenneesse / South Carolina to let Florida recover from Hurricane Matthew. We chose to explore the Appahalachian Trail since we had been curious about it.
This pic was taken at the visitors center at peg leg mine.
This gives very good information about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly.
A deer in the park late in the day.
The cool evenings having it's affect on the fall colors.
We hiked north of here approx. 2 miles and south of this point approx 2 miles the following day.
The weather was perfect and the vistas were awesome.
Mountain Ash
taking a break on a rock and enjoying the view.
The views were spectacular.
We feel truly blessed to be able to do this.
Notice the tiny people ahead on the trail.
Magnificient view after magnificent view.
How beautiful!!!
Notice our elevation of 5807 feet, we have climbed about 300 feet.
Our turn around point for the day even higher.
We parked the car at the Tenneessee/South Carolina line and walked both north and south approx two miles in each direction on two different days.
Frosty did just a little off-road parking.
Fall colors just starting to their appearance.
We hiked to Roan High Knob Mountain Shelter on our second day.
The hike was mostly up-hill in a stoney creek bed.
A rest stop with no cell phone coverage but lots of natural beauty.
More trail up the mountain.
The following are pics of a shelter that is typical of accommodations along the trail.
This benchmark marks the highest point in elevation along the Appalachian Trail. We had lunch on this rock. The climb was about 800 feet change in altitude
Pic opportunity at the visitors center at Peg Leg Mine.
Sign says "Danger don't go in there". 
This is a closed ore mine.
People playing in the water. A trout stream where it was deep enough.
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