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April 19, 2001 Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee In the Appalachian Mountains, a stream had cut a small gorge in the forest running west to east. Slightly more than five hundred meters long, it sloped downward in the direction of the flow of the stream. It ended in a series of waterfalls that descended into a large valley. The slope was severe enough to make traversing the area difficult, and one could easily slip and tumble downhill and over the falls. For the most part, this area was heavily forested; however, at one point a flat, muddy clearing opened up along side the stream. It measured about fifteen meters long and ten meters wide and was quite level in comparison to the rest of the sloping landscape around it. The clearing lay about fifty meters from the end of the gorge. Thaddeus Foote lay concealed in the trees on top
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