My Trip To The Great Smoky Mountains

My eyes peeled open slowly and the bright sunlight flooded into my eyes, blinding me. I heard the sound of running water and felt the cold breeze flow over my body. I looked out of my hammock and in front of me was a beautiful waterfall and several towering, bright green trees. My friends whom were with me shortly awoke and we packed our things and set off on our first true day of hiking in the Appalachian mountains.

Based on Annie Dillard’s account of witnessing a total eclipse in her essay “Total Eclipse” I would have to say she definitely encourages her readers to witness a total eclipse. She says that it is almost the opposite of a partial eclipse, which I am sure most people have seen many times before, that’s how different they are and I believe most people including myself think partial eclipses are spectacular and almost dreamlike.

“The sensation of sitting underneath a full moon on a star-filled night in the middle of the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park.”

Through different strategies and strong vocabulary, Dillard manages to inspire her readers to go out and find their own eclipse. One of Dillard’s strongest life lessons is that being different creates more lasting memories than being normal. Throughout all of “Total Eclipse” Dillard does strives to do her best and relate to her readers so that one day that they can find examples in their life of magical and inspiring moments just like seeing a total eclipse.

Then we wanted to make no stops from here to Yellowstone. Driving along by the mountain near Yellowstone they told us to go around but we did not want to waste 2 hours so we went up the mountain nice and slow. Since the mountain was so steep it burned our tires.

the author has seen a partial eclispe in 1970, Dillard states “ Its bear almost no realtion to a total elclipse”. She express her felelings about comparong a partial eclipse to a full eclipse to “ kissing a man does to marrying him”. Dillard explained the eclipse as “ Now the sky to the west depend to indgo, a color never seen. A dark sky usually loses color, this was a saturated, deep ingo, up in the air”,this sense created a idea that not everyone was not promise a certain time here on earth.

After waking up at site 18, having breakfast and cleaning up, we started up the trail. In retrospect, I would have gotten ready a bit quicker, as it was getting pretty warm as we approached the peak. However, the first three quarters to one mile offered a gradual assent, mostly in the shade and along the side of a creek for a time. We paused to enjoy a small waterfall along the trail. Then it started to climb a bit steeply, and the shade became occasional places where we looked forward to stopping to relax.

While on the Skywalk, we were not allowed to have our phones or personal cameras with us. This disappointed me greatly because I wanted to take pictures from the Skywalk, but I was ecstatic to hear they had someone out on the Skywalk that could take pictures for us. When entering the Skywalk, we saw the true beauty of the Grand Canyon. From our position, my family and I could see the great depth of the canyon and its humongous width at the same time. By the time we arrived back at the hotel, it was late at night. At last, I could sleep after this tiring but an equally amazing

ikes Peak is a big, tall, rocky, and beautiful mountain with a fantastic view. As my family and I started driving up the mountain the sun was shining so bright it was a nice warm summer day. The roads are so curvy going up the mountain which is creepy; if put on the outside rail. First it was a beautiful pine tree forest lookout, and saw all these different animal signs. A quarter of the way up we saw a strange sign saying Bigfoot Crossing, so we had to get a picture with it. Once we got out of the forest it got really cliffy and we got really close to the edge which is a little frightening, but it is an amazing view, so it is worth it. Lakes were cool to see, there are three of them and the are really big. As we got higher up the view was

The Smoky Mountains is one of my favorite parks to visit. I visit the mountains once a year with my family for exactly seven days in the fall, and it is time for that once a year trip. I am currently driving through the gates of the Smoky Mountain National Park! I always get very exited about this trip, because each year we visit a new campsite, and camp out there. During the first day my two siblings and I explore the land near the campsite while our parents set up the tent and build a fire.

Then we saw Bison running in front of use from the bobcats to but they got away but one of the animals died because we got to the end of the ranch and we saw a dead elk and there was guts everywhere and we told the park people and they said they would clean it up. On the last day we went to the long X-trail and when we got there we had to walk the trail and we where walking and we saw a bald eagle and he was right in a tree above me and then we saw a Cardinal and it flies fast we saw it for a minute and the next minute it was gone and we were amazed. When we got to the top of the trail we could see for miles and we could see a lot of houses and cars when we went back down we went on one of those Gondola and it was fun but I was afraid of heights and we got to the bottom and are car was there somehow and we got in it and we said it was amazing.we thought it was amazing seeing all of the animals and all the nice sites we

I knew that it was the perfect day to go out and explore an incredible place.

It was a bright sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. There was a group of 6 of us looking to discover the forbidden desert.

An adventurous vacation that turned into the most fearful and freighting experience in my life and everyone involved. The Great Smoky Mountains, a national park to the North of Carolina often called one of the most beautiful and extraordinary nature parks in the United States. Most tourists who visit this national park are looking for Great adventures and to find themselves interacting with mother Earth.

Life washes over those who expect it the least. One moment I was playing with the innocence of time, then life came crashing in and destroyed everything. With water-soaked clothes and tear-streaked cheeks, I returned home with the knowledge that life has no mercy. Life is not fair. Only the sweet sting of reality to my beaten down ego was my companion.