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Well, the appearance is a little different now.......but maybe some things don't change as much as we think they do....and couldn't resist the opportunity to post these "rugged" photos from a few years back. Here is a young highpointer, long before it was fashionable, dressed in then state-of-the-art Tennessee summer hiking attire......high performance Keds, and matching socks, shirt, and shorts....the shorts with the requisite ironed creases....and finally, the obligatory high performance digital (sorry...that's Polaroid instamatic) camera in hand ready to go...!

Other photos......a even younger hiker with his Mom posing as we go across the Little Pigeon River on the way up the Chimney Tops trail, and the infamous "need another hand or two" camera action with a film change on the Polaroid beside Highway 441 on the way to Alum Cave Bluffs in the fall. Enjoy.............!