I can vividly recall my first trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1963 when I was only 13 years old. Joan Giles, a good friend and neighbor, took my younger sister Jane, little brother Johnny and me to the Smokies with a side trip to Cherokee in 1963. It'd be another sixteen years before I'd hike the Smokies again. Thirty years after I resumed hiking in 1979, I finished my "Last Unhiked Step" in the Smokies. Enjoy the photos. Visit my website to read the hike journal for this trip:
http://home.earthlink.net/~firepink/id22.html