Yep, and it is really gorgeous when it does snow....and you get away from the kitsch and crowds. Beautiful place to get lost from the world!Originally Posted by FW
They get more snow than Florida
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Yep, and it is really gorgeous when it does snow....and you get away from the kitsch and crowds. Beautiful place to get lost from the world!They get more snow than Florida
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Well, VERY ambitious!
I will be arriving October 6 leaving October 17 or 18.
Edited to add, I will have to travel light. I can bring all my sidemount gear but not able to bring tanks or rebreather.
The nearest dive shops are in Knoxville. You may as well go to Rhea's, they will know where the best cavediving sites are. They might even have steel tanks to rent.
http://www.cavediver.net/forum/showt...ntry-Dive-Shop
Well if were up to me I would live in Colorado or Montana. But the wife Sony go that far north.
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Not me. Too dang cold. Miserable half the year in Colorado and miserable all year in Montana. I spent almost a year there, snowed in most of it. Snowstorm, blizzard like on july 4 with negative temps and four days later 70F and sunny until august, when the snow came and stayed piler deeper each week right through fall and winter. Miserable, Miserable, Miserable. Got vinyl seats in your truck? Crack them to bits as you sit to start it up. engine heaters plugged in to extension cords from the house. Miserable, Miserable, Miserable. Shovel tons of snow to get your truck out to drive to town and the county snow plow churning down the highway spews as you sit at the intersection burying your truck (and you) deeper than last night's snow. Did I say Miserable?
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Uh...Gatlinburg is synonymous with "crowds"? It does get sparsely populated just a ways outside Gatlinburg, but you really have to be careful where, as traffic and crowds can sprawl out pretty wide...definitely don't want to find yourself between Gatlinburg and the interstate/Pigeon Forge. Personally, I avoid that place like the plague. If I were retiring to East TN, and wanted to be close to the mountains, I'd check out areas around Townsend...otherwise known as "the quite side of the Smoky Mountains".
To the OP...Rhea's Diving in Maryville is the tech diver's destination in East TN, and they do rent steel tanks...in fact, I'm pretty sure that's all they rent...it's all I've ever gotten from them. http://www.rheasdiving.com/ Enjoy your visit.
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The snow sounds great. I can't stand the heat.
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Gatlinburg is a good place to be "around". Just try to stay out of Gatlinburg proper unless you're prepared for the full on tourist horde experience. Pigeon Forge isn't much better.
You'll be there at the height of the fall color season too, it WILL be crowded.
The aquarium in Gatlinburg is pretty nice though.
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