Dead chestnut can be seen along the top of the ridge north of Walnut Bottoms on Big Creek. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a founding member of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club (est. 1924) and a charter member of the Great Smoky…
Ann and E. P. “Sunny” Morris eat breakfast at their camp in Walnut Bottoms along Big Creek. About 40 hikers are camped here with the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club for a series of Labor Day weekend day hikes in the Mount Sterling area. The photographer,…
Ida Campbell sitting on a boulder “sunning” beside Big Creek at Walnut Bottoms, seven miles above Mt. Sterling Post Office. About 40 hikers are camped near here with the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club for a series of Labor Day weekend day hikes in the…
Ida Campbell sitting on a rock with her feet in Big Creek at Walnut Bottoms, seven miles above Mt. Sterling Post Office. About 40 hikers are camped near here with the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club for a series of Labor Day weekend day hikes in the…
Ida Campbell sitting on a rock with her feet in Big Creek at Walnut Bottoms, seven miles above Mt. Sterling Post Office. Hell Ridge is in the background. About 40 hikers are camped near here with the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club for a series of Labor…
This grove of yellow poplar stand along the trail about halfway between Big Creek and Low Gap. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a founding member of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club (est. 1924) and a charter member of the Great…
Standing on a dead chestnut tree are (L to R) Robert (Red) Reid, Ann Morris, Tom Duncan, and Benton McKaye. The tree, laying beside the Walnut bottoms-to-Low Gap trail, was about seven feet in diameter at three feet above the ground, and five feet…
Benton MacKaye, originator of the Appalachian Trail, standing beside a tree with an Appalachian Trail marker at Low Gap on the Tennessee-North Carolina state line. He is on a hike that is part of a series of Labor Day weekend day hikes in the Mount…
Benton MacKaye, originator of the Appalachian Trail, admiring a big oak at Low Gap on the Tennessee-North Carolina state line. He is on a hike that is part of a series of Labor Day weekend day hikes in the Mount Sterling area with the Smoky Mountains…
The ridge show here is the Tennessee-North Carolina state line west of Low Gap as seen from the line a few hundred yards east of Low Gap. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a founding member of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club (est.…