The crest of the Great Smoky Mountains

Mount Cammerer, the high point in the background, has a light dusting of snow. I started the day hiking on the Appalachian Trail near there, high in the Smokies. The trail was covered in snow and it was quite chilly.

When I descended into the lower elevations, the temperature was a balmy seventy five degrees. Unlike high in the Smokies, the trees here had leaves.

I looked over my shoulder and took this shot of where I began hiking that morning.