Hiking Fontana Dam to the Shuckstack Fire Tower

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#iloverflife #ShuckstackFireTower #FontanaDam One of the joys of our RV lifestyle is the trips into the mountains and the opportunity to make the occasional day hike. I’m a big fan of the lower Appalachian Mountains and have been fortunate to make a number of memorable hikes in North Georgia and North Carolina. On this warm summer day, our son Joel joined me to take a day hike in the Smoky Mountains from Fontana Dam to the Shuckstack fire tower. The hike was amazing.

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Thanks for sharing your wonderful video. Shuckstack is special, in one of the most beautiful places in the world. My mother was a fire watcher on Shuckstack in the late 1930’s/early 40’s and lived with her younger brother in the cabin at the tower’s base. She talked often about her time there. I love knowing that she was such a free and fearless girl doing something that few people have gotten to experience. My sister and I are both in our sixties now and planning to hike Shuckstack together next fall. I watch videos like yours for encouragement to keep working toward that goal! Thanks again for posting this.

Rainismusic
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Absolutely a great place I have been to the Dam several times. This is amazing 👌💯🔔

NCmountainsYouTubeChannel
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Awesome video!!! Looks like so much fun!!

DanielleMarieyt
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Beautiful country...keep doing what you do...we are out here along on each trek. Love your videos.

pamelamargroff
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You both are in the best shape!! Such an awesome way to spend some quality time together. We just got our first travel trailer and our soon to be 24yo has joined us on each trip and exclaims how much she loves camping. Now kicking ourselves for not getting it when she was younger. But hopefully, she will get one of her own for her future family and build her own memories.

pchy
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I'm very glad you don't solo hike. Not wise to hike alone. Especially on the AT. My friend hiked the entire AT 3 yrs ago. He's wilderness trained and a retired marine. Even he got himself in trouble when he had a really bad fall and sprained both hands. If it wasn't for an army medic happened to come along who knows what would have happened. After 5 days in the hospital he got back on the trail. Started in May and finished just in time for Christmas.

courtneyoneal
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You deserve a nice glass of wine 🍷 after that hike.

KenFehner
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Outstanding job on that hike. Been to Fontana many times camping at the bottom of the Dam and staying in cabins at the Village. We usually take a canoe or rent a pontoon boat up Eagle creek to the old copper mine or up Hazel creek to the old town of Proctor which they had to burn down in order to get the people to move out when they flooded the valley and took it into the Great Smoky Mountains national Park . One of the last mountain areas not over commercialized.

georgebryant
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found it on the map. very nice!! i ride (motorcycle) up there a lot. now i have to come back and hike it with the wife. but not in July. our hiking season is fall and winter.

pigybak
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I have hiked the whole trail we started in ga got to Fontana in a few weeks had our hiking legs under us and that climb still kicked my behind. For you to just say hay let’s go climb that my hats off to you, but the views are worth the climb.

clarkgray
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Beautiful but looks like tick and chigger heaven, lol. Hope you sprayed yourselves down with Deet really good before your hike. Continued safe travels.

LaCatLady
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Coldest I ever got backpacking was doing the A.T. Section through gsmnp in 1978. Took 5 days, on my trip from Springer Mt. in Georgia to Damascus Va. for a 35 day trip. Out of shape, pack too heavy and some Southern Comfort to fight the cold night. That climb up from the damn dam was horrible.

jim-uudb
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Gorgeous hike, but a bit out of our league! LOL Thanks so much for sharing it.

NancyFehner
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I spent an entire summer in the Appalachian Mountains as a kid with my grandparents. We car camped in a lot of the campgrounds, no fifth wheels or big class a's back then...tents and little trailers. It remains one of my childhoods greatest memories..I was about 10 or 12. It is one of the few things I miss now living out west...true east coast woods.

mhspear
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ANYTIME your in nature, it's worth it! Great job and glad you enjoyed the hijw.

AuntIEWeeZER
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Beautiful!! Glad you got to do it 🙌🏽❤

kimmyt
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We will be spending a month camping near Murphy in Nov.
I can't wait after watching this!!

wendycrooks
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O my goodness Jerry! So much fun traveling around with you and your family!!I recently binge watched you and Joan at the wineries. LOVED IT!! This one was beautiful too!! God bless yall!!

amyd
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Thanks for sharing such a beautiful hike. My husband and I visited Fontana the last week in June. It was neat to see the various ways people enjoy the area. We saw so many bikers; a car rally at the base of the damn and another rally at the top; and even a wedding overlooking the lake.

parksidecircle
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Beautiful views!!! How would you compare this hike with your hike at Stone Mountain State Park, GA?

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