This is part 3 of my trip through the park a few weeks ago. Now we're on the Gatlinburg side, and I ran into pretty thick fog. Together with more "icefalls," it was a beautiful site. Take a look!
As I came down the mountain toward Gatlinburg, I went through several tunnels.
Coming out of one of the tunnels, I found this "icefall." This is usually a flowing waterfall in the summer.
About halfway from Newfound Gap to Gatlinburg, the fog rolled in.
As you can see, the farther down I went, the thicker the fog became.
But you know what - it wasn't fog. I was just going through the clouds, just like a plane descending to land. By the time I got to the Sugarlands Visitors Center, just before Gatlinburg, everything was just cloudy. I had driven from sunlight, through the clouds, and was finally below the clouds.
After all, these are the "smoky" mountains!
