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Joined a Sierra Club trip on the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park at peak of fall colors. Stayed at shelters with chain-link barricades, meant to keep out bears, that turned them into reverse zoos. We never saw a bear.
Beth Powis
Glendale
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