After getting up early to say bye to Grommet who had to catch an 8 am shuttle I hiked up into the smokies. I was a very unhappy man. The day was starting out just like the whites. Nothing but cold and clouds. I very angrily hiked the 2500 feet and 4.5 miles up into the smokies in and hour and fifteen min. Entirely to my surprise when I got to the top it was the opposite of the whites. Instead of hiking into the clouds I had hiked above them. There was a fire tower at the top of the mountain where I got some great 360° views of the tips of the smokies jutting out of the clouds like islands in a sea of white. The rest of the day was a nice easy ridge walk in the sun. Very much not what I was expecting.
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