our photo travel log
We are packing for 7 days of hiking in the Smokys. We will spend the first day in Elkmont and hope to see synchronous fireflies in the evening. Next day from Tremont to Spence Field via West Prong is tough, 14 km and 1300 m altitude gain, but then we hike forth and back on the Appalachian Trail on top of the range (right and left on the Google view), before walking down back to Tremont. Rain and bear activity in the forecast.
Forest and prairie hiking in ☞ Yellowstone Lake State Park, ☞ Governor Dodge State Park and ☞ New Glarus Woods State Park: 30+ miles, 3,000 ft total ascent, sunny days with 33+℃. Warm-up before the Smokys and beginning of Gokyo prep. Camped at Yellowstone Lake where big trees provide shade and little brown bats eat mosquitoes.
Siedem Drzew ☞ Seven Trees is a restaurant, hotel and small private botanical garden in Biskupice Wielkopolskie (located 1 mile South of Poznan-Gniezno highway). Short walk in the garden and dinner.
Itinerary: Poznan ➜ Wroclaw ➜ Cathedral ➜ ☞ Wroclaw Zoo/Africarium ➜ Centennial Hall-Szczytnicki Park-Japanese Garden ➜ Old Town Hall-Market Square ➜ Hotel Polonia ➜ Dunikowski Bulevard on Oder River ➜ Old Town Hall-Market Square ➜ main train station ➜ Poznan
