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Yes. Started at Smoky. Nice parking spot there. Take a looky at the map.
I just looked and that's the route I was planning on. Was it as easy as it looks?
If you only want to get up to the dome you can take the creek route and avoid any shrub really.
But if you park at Smoky then I'd really recommend the route I did. The eastern area I showed,
to me, was pretty cool. Nice flat spots and little rock outcroppings here and there.
From Smoky go straight up working around any shrub really... down to 7307 is a bit of shrub
but only slightly, and most can be avoided by going southwestly (more than what I did).
Very little Manz so even any shrub busting is trivial.
From the top you can easily drop down a good 400 ft. and peer down to the South Fork and
over to the bridge.
The creek route down is trivial. It's open forest mostly... the last section to Smoky has
some deadfall... but you can skip the last section by climbing up the steps of the bridge...
(you'll know what I mean when you do it)
Or... you can just go across the creek and hike up to the road at any time.
(it was flowing nicely at this time so I didn't... )
Let us know how it goes... wanna go back myself and spend even more time there...