Great Smoky Mountains National Park - May/June 2014

Smokemont Campground - after a day of driving and stocking up at 2 of Atlanta's REI locations we rolled into the parking lot at Smokemont, near the Cherokee, NC entrance to the park. 

After waiting out a short shower we headed out onto the trail.  5 miles down the Bradley Fork Trail was campsite 49.

We were a little soggy after another shower caught us on the trail.  But we had several breaks in the rain and used them to find salamanders in the creek and to cook up our dinner.