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Authors speak about delights, frights along Cumberland Trail on Feb. 2

Posted at 9:32 pm January 27, 2017
By Sandra Goss Leave a Comment

Ben Larry Pounds Book Cover

Well-known botanist Larry Pounds and his son, local journalist Ben Pounds, spent a month in 2012 hiking all 200 miles of the Cumberland Trail that existed then. Combining Larry’s extensive botany experience and Ben’s training as a writer, they documented their experiences in a book, “Wildly Strolling Along,” a press release said.

The public is invited to an informational program about their Cumberland Trail experience in a 7 p.m. program on Thursday, February 2. The Pounds will share slides of their favorite sights along the Cumberland Trail and provide basic information about the trail, the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, Recreation, Sports Tagged With: Ben Pounds, Cumberland Trail, First Presbyterian Church, Larry Pounds, Sandra K. Goss, Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning, Wildly Strolling Along

Summer Solstice evening hike on Cumberland Trail on Friday, June 17 

Posted at 9:54 pm June 16, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Get a jump on the June 20 Summer Solstice with a Summer Solstice Outing on the Alley Ford section of the Cumberland Trail on Friday evening, June 17. The outing will include a 2.5-mile walk roundtrip, with one short uphill, then mostly level trail with a few ups and downs.   Participants should bring a supper snack and something to sit on while eating. Weather permitting; there will be nice views from the overlook and Nemo Bridge, a press release said.

Participants can meet for carpooling in the Gold’s Gym/Books-A-Million parking lot in Oak Ridge (at the end close to South Illinois Avenue, near Salsarita’s) at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time, or meet at the Nemo parking area at 6:15. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Recreation, Sports Tagged With: Alley Ford, Cumberland Trail, evening hike, hike, Summer Solstice Outing, Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning

Honors: Roane State student’s GIS project earns recognition

Posted at 8:53 pm December 8, 2014
By Roane State Community College Leave a Comment

Joe Pyle Winning GIS Poster

Images courtesy of Roane State Community College

 

Roane State Community College student Joe Pyle enjoys working with his hands.

As a student in the college’s geographic information systems, or GIS, program, his raw material of choice is data, and his craftsmanship has received statewide recognition.

Pyle’s map predicting cell phone coverage along the Cumberland Trail won in the Best Analysis category at the East Tennessee Geographic Information Council Forum. Pyle’s map depicts the Cumberland Trail from Frozen Head State Park to LaFollette. The map is overlaid with markers predicting cell phone signal strength at points along the trail. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Honors and Spotlight Tagged With: Best Analysis, cell phone coverage, Cumberland Trail, East Tennessee Geographic Information Council Forum, Frozen Head State Park, geographic information systems, GIS, Joe Pyle, Lafollette, Pat Wurth, Roane State, Roane State Community College

Fire conditions worsen in East Tennessee, two firefighters slightly injured

Posted at 12:53 pm November 25, 2012
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Lower humidity and gusty winds at higher elevations mean fire conditions have worsened in East Tennessee, state firefighters said Sunday.

Two firefighters were slightly injured battling blazes in Campbell County on Saturday, said Nathan M. Waters, Tennessee Forestry Division assistant district forester.

State and local firefighters have responded to 16 new fires since Thanksgiving Day across upper East Tennessee, including in Anderson, Campbell, Knox, Morgan, Scott, Sevier, and Union counties. The fires have burned hundreds of acres, and many of them are suspected arsons.

Waters said forestry crews would recheck fires in Anderson, Scott, and Campbell counties, including one on Walden Ridge that broke out again on Saturday and one on a mountaintop west of Briceville on Highway 116, also known as New River Highway. The Walden Ridge breakout was contained, and “crews will be improving lines today,” Waters said.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Police and Fire, Top Stories, Weather Tagged With: Anderson County, arson, Briceville, burn permits, Campbell County, Cumberland Trail, East Tennessee, fire conditions, Highway 116, Nathan M. Waters, New River Highway, Scott County, Tennessee Division of Forestry, Walden Ridge

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