We followed up our climb to Mt. LeConte with a short little climb to Clingman's Dome today, which was
absolutely filled with tourists of every manner and description, most of them extremely unfit (unlike the people we saw on the upper part of the trail yesterday), but all of them enjoying themselves immensely and rightly proud of their accomplishment. The climb is only half a mile or so, but it is
very steep, and we had to admit that we felt it a little in our legs.
As we were leaving the parking lot, a young woman with several children asked us if the hike was short, and I said, "It depends on what you mean by short. It's only half-a-mile. But it's a little steep."
Perhaps I could have quoted Moliere to her. "T
he greater the obstacle, the more glory
in overcoming it." And that includes climbing this crazy spiraling concrete tower in the middle of an endless sea of mountains.
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