Hidden Beauty Between the Trees, Great Smoky Mountains

by Rebecca Carr

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Hidden Beauty Between the Trees, Great Smoky Mountains

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Rebecca Carr

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I could hear this rushing stream in the Smokies and viewed it through the trees. Looking at the image makes me hear the soothing bubbling sound again.

"Great Smoky Mountains National Park has many beautiful streams and waterfalls. Throughout the Smokies you may be enticed from your car by the sight, sound, and feel of clear, cool mountain streams that tumble downslope as frothy cascades and waterfalls.

Such water is the result of an abundant annual precipitation that averages about fifty (50) inches at lower elevations and up to eighty three (83) inches at Clingmans Dome. Warm, moist air masses that move inland from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean tend to cool as they rise over the mountains. This cooling air loses its ability to retain moisture so the higher elevations receive an increasing amount of precipitation.

Precipitation in the form of rain either enters the ground, runs off into streams, or evaporates. Winter snows temporarily delay this recycling. Once the rain or melted snow enters the ground it begins to slowly percolate down to the water table.

Natural springs occur throughout the mountains where the water table is close to the surface. This water and the run-off of frequent rains results in streams that flow constantly the year round." (http://www.mysmokymountainvacation.com/streams.html)

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August 24th, 2019

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