Our November 2017 trip to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GSMNP) was an adventure like no other.

Despite 2/3 of us having forded the Maine Appalachian Trail water crossings on our thru-hikes, NONE of us had experience fording knee-to-thigh high, fast-moving creeks. And certainly not in the freezing cold.

After we reached our first crossing the first night in the dark, we had a better sense of what the next 14 crossings would be like!

Let’s get hiking!