Thread: Some random scribblings

The 1,000 square miles inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are my stomping ground. I've stomped 3,500 miles through the park, but sometimes you gotta switch hands, so to speak, to keep from getting bored. So I've put in a miscellaneous 500 miles elsewhere.

One such elsewhere, on the Tennessee/North Carolina border is Roan Mountain and the Roan Highlands. This is one of those places that you'd expect to see Hobbits, and the locals hunting them.

At an elevation of 6,285 feet, the summit of Roan Mountain is a 1.6 mile, 773 foot climb front the parking area at Carvers Gap. It's an easy climb, unless you're a flabby out-of-shape pussy. So for all you flabby out-of-shape pussies, here it is.




The boulders at the summit would be a good place to hide from roaming Nazgul. And remember, one should not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for it makes them soggy and hard to light.

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