Crossing Thunderhead Prong the first time
Thunderhead Manway Can you see the path?
Cascade along Thunderhead Prong GSMNP April 2007
Dan sits at the old bridge crossing of Thunderhead Prong GSMNP April 2007
Old spikes in a bridge tie
Large Flowered Bellwort Uvularia grandiflora Liliacea family Along the Thunderhead Manway GSMNP April 23, 2007
Rhododendron tunnel along the Thunderhead manway.
View from the Thunderhead manway
This is what nearly ate us alive on Defeat Ridge. Carnivorous Plant GSMNP April 2007
The A.T. as it crosses Thunderhead Mountain GSMNP April 23, 2007
The Defeat Ridge Manway emerges onto Thunderhead. You'd never suspect there is any sort of path here at all. GSMNP April 23. 2007
The A.T. goes out over Thunderhead from here. GSMNP April 2007
Benchmark on Thunderhead 5,527 ft high
Thunderhead Mtn GSMNP April 2007 My house lines up perfectly with Thunderhead Mtn. and Walland Gap.
View Southward from standing atop the cairn on Thunderhead Mtn. GSMNP April 23, 2007
Cades Cove as seen from atop Thunderhead Mountain GSMNP April 23, 2007
The Appalachian Trail crosses Thunderhead Mountain here. GSMNP April 2007
Blockhouse Mountain with a foreground of red maple buds. GSMNP April 2007
Once Two Strangers Climbed Ole' Rockytop
The REAL Rocky Top Signatures of herders from long ago
Perfoliate Bellwort (Small flowered Bellwort) Uvularia sessilifolia Liliacea Family Alongside Bote Mtn. Trail GSMNP April 23, 2007