My family loves going to Gatlinburg and we make it out each year for the MLK Holiday weekend. This year it falls on Jan 13 - 16. Last year we were there around the same time and I wanted to do the Charlie's Bunyun hike. There was one little probem: about 3 ft of snow at Newfound Gap . A guy at an outfitter showed me a picture of it almost completely covering a trail marker sign. I think they had the whole road (441?) through the GSMNP closed at that point too. This year I'm hoping to try and make it out. What are the odds of it being passable? How unsafe is too unsafe? I will be making the hike with my college roommate. We are both 22.