Lufty Gap with snow 15 feet high

Lufty Gap with snow 15 feet high

Hikers

Snow -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Winter -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Hiking

Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great Smoky Mountains and surrounding area. A banker and a conservationist, Fink kept a journal of his explorations and published his entries in Backpacking Was the Only Way (1975). On the back of this 1915 photograph, Fink wrote: This picture was taken in Lufty Gap the afternoon of the night the boy froze to death on Deep Creek. Easter 1915 Snow about 15' deep at the Gap.

Paul Fink Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1915-04;

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photographs

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30208

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/30208

https://wncln.wncln.org/record=b1264458~S4

2017-09-01

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Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Luftee Gap (N.C.)

Sevier County (Tenn.)

Swain County (N.C.)

2.5" x 3.25"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America