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We were in the Smokies towards the end of July. I did the Chimney Tops trail and you could very clearly hear bikes and traffic at the summit. Kind of shatters the illusion as far as I'm concerned.


I took the kids up there once in July and once in August. Both times the rock was so hot that we decided not to climb to the summit. I attempted the manway around the left that used to go out to the end of the second summit, but rock fall has destroyed a section of it and good sense told me to stop and go back. And I, too, heard the rumble of motorcycles.