4-5-15 last day in the smoky mountain national park

Today I made my way out of the smoky mountains, I enjoyed the views but the trails were basically river beds. I was walking down the trail and I kept seeing deer tracks and all of a sudden there was a huge buck on the trail ahead of me, he looked back at me dipped his head and jumped off the trail disappearing in to the woods. This gave me the energy to make it over the next hill. I look forward to the lower elevation for a bit, the freezing temps in the 5000'+ smokeys is punishing as I like to move at sunrise and its typically still below freezing that early.