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We was setup one time years ago at Smoky Mtns ELKMONT TN at our usual end camping site at F8 which is right on the water coming under the bridge... Being the end camp site there was no other connecting sites here on this side of the camp road.
This was during the week and not alot of campers there but a couple of cars drove up and two or three guys speaking with FAR EAST language setup a small tent. Both cars had different states tags on them. Then in alittle bit three more cars showed up and they too was foreign dudes with the Far East language being spoken...
I am usually pretty much leave things as is but this sure got my attention haha... All these guys set around the firepit all night long yaking away... All sounded very series and no party time was going on... They was a good 200 feet or so away from us...
When we got up early the next morning the tent and all the cars were gone... haha
I stopped in the check-in and asked about them - They said they did check-in and was being watched by local ranger pretty close all night long... Five or six cars from different states all around one little tent yaking all night long was a very interesting event for sure... Probably on the up and up but who knows haha...
Roy Ken
This was during the week and not alot of campers there but a couple of cars drove up and two or three guys speaking with FAR EAST language setup a small tent. Both cars had different states tags on them. Then in alittle bit three more cars showed up and they too was foreign dudes with the Far East language being spoken...
I am usually pretty much leave things as is but this sure got my attention haha... All these guys set around the firepit all night long yaking away... All sounded very series and no party time was going on... They was a good 200 feet or so away from us...
When we got up early the next morning the tent and all the cars were gone... haha
I stopped in the check-in and asked about them - They said they did check-in and was being watched by local ranger pretty close all night long... Five or six cars from different states all around one little tent yaking all night long was a very interesting event for sure... Probably on the up and up but who knows haha...
Roy Ken
