Keeping watch: Mt. Cammerer fire tower restoration marks Friends of the Smokies’ 30th birthday

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Wednesday, 11/10/2023

Gary Wade grew up in Pittman Center, Tennessee, just 7 miles from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park trailhead leading to Mt. Cammerer. But despite being a lifelong hiker, he didn’t reach the storied fire tower  at the summit until 1993, when he was in his mid 40s. 

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