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Hiking Trails to Mount le Conte: Alum Cave Trail, Trillium Gap Trail, Bullhead Trail, the Boulevard Trail, Rainbow Falls Trail

Chapters: Alum Cave Trail, Trillium Gap Trail, Bullhead Trail, the Boulevard Trail, Rainbow Falls Trail. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Alum Cave Trail (also referred to as Alum Cave Bluff Trail) is an American hiking trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Sevier County, Tennessee. The trail ascends Mount Le Conte, the tallest (and sixth highest) mountain east of the Mississippi River and contains many notable landmarks before merging into the Rainbow Falls Trail, near the summit. It is one of the most popular destinations for visitors to the national park. Alum Cave Bluff Alum Cave is not a true cave. It is what geologists refer to as a rock shelter. The first recorded account of Alum Cave goes back to 1837 when three farmers (Ephraim Mingus, Robert Collins, and George W. Hayes) from Oconaluftee, North Carolina applied at the Sevier County (Tennessee) Land Office for a grant of a 50-acre (200,000 m) tract of land that would include Alum Cave and its salt deposits. Tennessee sold the tract of land to the three men on December 6, 1838. The Epsom Salts Manufacturing Company was formed to mine the deposit. The minerals mined were alum, Epsom salt, saltpeter, magnesia, and copperas. The easily accessible salts were depleted by the mid-1840s, but mining resumed during the Civil War. There is no report on any mining after the Civil War. The Alum Cave Trail provides many scenic overlooksThe Alum Cave Trail begins its ascent at 3,830 feet (1,170 m) by quickly crossing two streams: Walker Camp Prong and Alum Cave Creek, the latter of which flanks the trail for the first 1.3 miles (2.1 km) of its length. This first leg of the trail leads the hiker through an old-growth forest, comprised largely of hemlock and yellow birch and is relat...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4331154









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