How to get Your Smokies News updates or add a Smokies News Feed to your web site or MySpace.

At your Smokies News we work hard to bring you the most accurate and up to the moment Smoky Mountains News. You can subscribe for free to get automatic news updates or even add our live news crawl to your own web site for free.

How to get automatic Your Smokies News Updates:

Your Smokies News has RSS (Real Simple Syndication) news feeds which you can either use as a live bookmark or use a RSS feed reader.

The simplest way is to use Live Bookmarks. Simply Subscribe to Your Smokies News and use the "live Bookmarks function". To see if there is an update on our site, just go to the bookmark you just made in your web browser such as Internet Explorer or Safari and it will automatically list all of news stories in descending order - newest first.

The other option is to use a RSS News Feed Reader such as Google Reader. This site has a simple introduction video.

Go to this page and add us in under the section that says "Stay close to friends and family!" and under the username add in "yoursmokies". Add in other sites with feeds that interest you and then when you check your Google news reader page, all of the new updates will be there.

There are many other News Readers so see which one you like best.

How to add your Smokies News Updates to your web site.
Now you can have the latest Smokies News on your web site by adding a free Your Smokies news crawl on your web site, blog or Myspace page.

Listed below is what the news crawl looks like as well as the html code for the link.

Your Smokies News

The HTML code:
<a href="http://www.yoursmokiesnews.com"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursmokiesblog.gif" alt="Your Smokies News"><br />Your Smokies News</a>

Highlight the code above in green, copy (on PCs Control C) and the Paste (on PCs Control V) into the body of your web site.

Now you can follow the excitement of Your Smokies on Twitter

Your Smokies has just the world of Twitter as Smokies Hiker and has been updating feeds on both Your Smokies News and the Your Smokies web site Hiking section.

What is Twitter you may ask? It is a free service that lets you send or receive messages up 140 characters long in real time. Now you can see where we are going and what we are doing along our adventures in the Great Smoky Mountains.

With Twitter we are updating our web sites and blogs via our PCs in our offices and laptop computers and cell phones while we are on the road. Often cell phones do not work in the Great Smoky Mountains national park, but when they do we will be sending updates.

Twitter will also give you the opportunity to respond what we write about on Your Smokies or not. Don't want to Twit? Well you can just watch our Twitter updates on the lower right hand side of Your Smokies News.

Ready to join the fun? Follow the Smokies Hiker on Twitter!

Pisgah National Forest Hiking death from fall

If only a 21 year old from Alabama who was hiking with a friend in the North Carolina Pisgah National Forest read the Your Smokies News last month where we warned hikers of the danger of hiking off hiking trials especially near waterfalls.

While trying to navigate a stream crossing above the Moore Cove Falls area just north of Looking Glass Falls he fell 50 feet to his death. He was not on a designated path or stream crossing but decided with his friend to blaze his own trail in the forest in order to get to the top of the falls.

Even though there are more than 250 waterfalls in North Carolinas Transylvania County known as the Land of Waterfalls, this is the first hiking fatality. Emergency workers in Transylvania County respond to at least 5 waterfall accidents a year even though visitors are warned to stay away from the danger zones.

Wet Rocks at Big Bradley Falls near Saluda in Polk County spelled disaster last June when a hiker fell 100 feet to his death. Waterfall related fatalities here are historically an annual occurrence.

In the Great Smoky Mountains national park there have been plenty of hiking deaths as a result of accidents around waterfalls. The 2 most dangerous waterfalls that come to mind are Laurel Falls and the Ramsey Cascades falls.

Laurel falls in easily assessable via a paved hiking path on a relatively short hike so it is extremely popular - especially with parents of younger children since many can hike to the falls without being carried. Unfortunately with slipper rocks and a steep drop off at the bottom of the falls, there have been numerous deaths.

The Ramsey Cascades falls with its trailhead located in the Greenbrier section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is far more strenuous with a rougher trail, higher elevations and being an 8 mile round trip hike. You are very isolated when you get to the falls making getting help and well as any subsequent rescue far more tedious and time consuming. Sadly many deaths have occurred at Ramsey Cascades falls which is one of the nicest waterfalls in the Smokies.

Hike with caution, don't blaze new trails and don't forget moss and ice covered rocks can be far more slippery than you may expect. We want you to be able to come back to the Great Smoky Mountains national park and the surrounding forests time and time again so please be careful.

Have Your Smokies News on your web site

Now you can have the latest Smokies News on your web site by adding a free Your Smokies news crawl on your web site, blog or Myspace page.

Listed below is what the news crawl looks like as well as the html code for the link.

Your Smokies News

The HTML code:
<a href="http://www.yoursmokiesnews.com"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursmokiesblog.gif" alt="Your Smokies News"><br />Your Smokies News</a>

Highlight the code above in green, copy (Control C) and the Paste (Control V) into the body of your web site.

If instead you wish to link to one of the informational web pages in Your Smokies, the code is listed below:

Smokies NC and TN Weather link:
<a href="http://www.yoursmokies.com/smokies-weather-reports.html"> Smokies Weather</a>

Smokies Live Web Cams:
<a href="http://www.yoursmokies.com/smokymountainsnationalparkwebcam .html">Smokies Cams</a>

National Park Information:
<a href="http://www.yoursmokies.com/smokymountainsnationalpark .html">Great Smoky Mountains National Park</a>

Smokies Fishing Information:
<a href="http:// www.yoursmokies.com/smokymountainnationalparkfishingregulations .html">Fishing Information</a>

Friends of the Smokies:
<a href="http://www.yoursmokies.com/friendsofsmokies.html">Friends of the Smokies</a>

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