This post is a response...

...to my partner in photography crime, the keeper of the Photography and Avery blog. She recently posted some picture of some North Carolina mountains which reminded me that I have a few mountain shots myself. These were taken this past April in Gatlinburg, TN. If you're a bit throwed off by the snow, let me give you the rundown of that week. We arrived on a Sunday, it was a mild 70 degree day. My wife was concerned because we like to do a lot of outdoor activities in Gatlinburg and the weather called for snow that week. We didn't get too concerned, though, because we learned from our previous trip that the weather forecasts in the region are often unreliable because the weather phenomena may take place at the higher elevations but not the lower ones. Well, they were right this time.

That night, the temperature dropped very rapidly. The next day it was much cooler. We decided to layer up and go hiking anyway. Now, it was cool and rainy at the bottom of our first mountain trial. The higher we went up, the rain turned to sleet, then there was a light flurry, and at the top it was outright snowing. This wasn't a flake here or there; this was a good two inches of snow. And it went on for two days. The hilarity of it all came to a head when on that Wednesday, the snow was gone and temperature went back up to 70 degrees. That day we went white water rafting and mini-golfing. Good times.