Ok Mom, here's a picture with me in it for you.
Peaceful Cosby Campground
Didn't see any bear on this walk either. Still holding at 1 bear in 31 walks.
The amphitheater
Getting ready for the "Cosby in the Park" festival
One of the tent sites at Cosby Campground
A bear trap in the campground
The Snake Den Ridge trailhead
The start of the trail is an old Jeep road
The Cosby Cemetary
Ella V. Costner 1st Lt. U.S.A. R.N. WWII POW Poet Laureate of the Smokies
The traffic circle, after which the trail turns into a real trail
A tiny mushroom near a nice cascade area
Rock Creek tumbles downhill near the trail
A tiny snail
Heading up the trail into the old growth forest
First crossing of today over Rock Creek
Have a seat
Rock Creek
A centipede snacks near the creek crossing
Big trees on this part of the trail
Standing on its roots
A huge old hemlock
Moss covered log beside the trail
Beetles enjoying a mushroom snack
A giant dead hemlock, victim of the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
More beetles enjoying lunch
A big poplar guards the trail
Silverbell flowers litter the trail
Crossing Inadu Creek
The crossover point from Inadu Mountain to Snake Den Mountain was this nice crossing of Inadu (snake) Creek
Waterbugs scoot along the surface of Inadu Creek
Topping Snake Den Ridge, views begin to appear
Clouds rolling in
Another tree standing on its roots
Clouds on the adjacent ridges
Painted trillium in bloom, it's still early Spring at these elevations
A fallen fraser hangs above the trail
White Trillium
Looking back towards Cosby (in view at the bottom)
Bluets lining the trail
At the intersection with Maddron Bald Trail
Wreckage from the F-4 crash
At the top of today's hike, Inadu Knob, 5700 feet elevation
Looking south at the Balsams
Luftee Knob on the left
The AT white blaze
In this section the AT is a tunnel of laurel
A windfall has diverted the trail here
Incredible view to the east after rounding Camel Hump Knob
Notice the heath balds across the mountains
A 5000 foot rabbit, tougher than your average rabbit
The Cosby Knob backcountry shelter was a busy place on this Saturday
The new privy at the Cosby Knob shelter
Low Gap
Cosby Creek
Old growth nearing the campground
Made it back finally, after 13.2 miles
Sunday morning from the lot
Our 'for sale' lot near Whittier, NC. Hard to believe with a view like this it hasn't sold yet
