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You're located in Tennessee looking into Kentucky at the
very southwestern tip of Virginia. The Pinnacle Overlook is a rocky promontory at the top
of the gap. It affords a 270 degree view of the area bisected by the Cumberland
Plateau hogback as it marches off to the southwest. This is the view toward the west into the Kentucky town of
Middlesboro.
The pioneers would have seen an endless track of forest broken by swamp
and canebrakes. I seem to remember reading that Dan'l Boon spent nearly two weeks
in getting out of this valley because of the density of the
canebrakes. Old Dan'l kilt a b'ar just beyond the green swarth in
the upper right where the Stoney Fork joins the Yellow Creek.
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Half a world away this place is remembered.
Scratched into the aluminum guardrail at the Pinnacle Masaomi's
sentiment gives
voice to my own. |
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