Some of my favorite trips during the years between 1996 and 2000 were those I took east of Nashville, in the fall, over the Smokey Mountains.

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Some 100 balloonists, including a slew who man special-shaped airships like dragons and bald eagles, converge on the region's parks and airports to launch against a backdrop of mountains awash in fall foliage.

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She did not fall more than 100 feet to her death in a remote area of the Hahnenkamm mountains at 4:30 GMT yesterday.

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