Mount Leconte has hovered near the top of your hiking bucket list in the Great Smoky Mountains for a long time.  The day finally comes...

I made it to Myrtle Point 25 minutes before the 7:34 am sunrise with a fresh, untouched 6 inch blanket of snow waiting for me. The wind...

8°!...That's what the thermometer at the Leconte lodge read as we summited. 8°! With a finger numbing, skin percing, body shivering,...