Photos from March Sierra Club outing and hike in the Little Frog Wilderness, which would be impacted by Corridor K. Hike was about 7.5 miles on the Rock Creek and Dry Pond Lead Trails, starting in the cold and snow of the morning that turned to a beautiful spring day with the snow mainly melted in the afternoon. Afterward hikers took to their vehicles and drove the Kimsey Highway a ways, coming in from the east and TN 68 (Harbuck). Will Skelton writes: "We were absolutely astounded that anyone would think a road should (or even could) be build up the mountain from the east. It would have to ascend a very steep and high mountain wall, then descend and cross numerous valleys as the mountains and ridges are generally running north and south, while the road would run east to west. I understand a big proponent of the road, always takes people in from the western end at Greasy Creek (TN 30), where the climb is more gradual. And that the steepness of this eastern side of the mountains is why TDOT rejected the route four years ago." Photos are available at the website below. They show the precipitous nature of the Kimsey Highway, and how high up it goes (one of the photos has a red circle; the next photo shows, via telephoto, what's within that circle way down in the valley below)."

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