On our visits to the Smoky Mountains we are always on the lookout for animals. Bears, deer, turkeys, chipmunks. I was very surprised to discover that three days a week there are llamas on the trails.
They begin their 13 mile roundtrip journey to bring supplies to the lodge at Mount Le Conte from the parking lot of the Trillium Gap trail on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We got there at 6:00 and found the llama wrangler getting the 8 llamas out of their trailer and packing their bags. She was very friendly and shared some of her adventures with the llamas.
The llamas were very calm and let us pet them and feed them alfalfa snacks.
