UPDATE: Rangers and the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s Knoxville Strike Team carried the hiker with a broken leg down from Mount LeConte on May 9, a Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesperson said.
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Hiking Mount LeConte

Here’s what it was like hiking 11 miles up to Mount LeConte via the Alum Cave Trail Jeff Hoffman Gets Honest About Who He ...
It’s not yet 9 a.m. on a weekday, but Alum Cave Trail is already bustling. With parking scarce, hikers might walk nearly a mile to reach the trailhead along Newfound Gap Road. “I’ve probably already ...