high places

 i beat the crowds to laurel falls, on the way to elkmont in the smokies --- it's always been massively crowded when i've been by, but today i got there at 8 am and had it almost all to myself going up --- not so going down

and in the process of getting this sorry shot, i grasped the reality of falling to one's death from a high place

 the last two times i've been over newfound gap and had the chance to go out to clingman's dome, it's been totally fogged in, which is a purty cool experience, but nothing like a semi-sunny day