Well, almost everything. I didn't bring anything to write with. So, I made sure to remember a couple of numbers specifically, but I've lost some. Another unfortunate thing was that the sky opened up after being in the flats for about 20 minutes. I got to at least see most of the first flats, but I definitely would have measured more. 

The numbers I remember for white pine: 8'9" at 156 feet, 7'9" at 167.5, and 8'8" at 175. I remember that one for sure. It's definitely worth going back and measuring more trees, and looking for better shots of the tops. There are more small flats downstream, as well. Maybe next week.

Also, you said you went down the east/south side- I know it's really narrow along the creek, but there's one little branch that flows in down below the flats that looks really steep going up, but has what looks to be a nice pocket in it- did you check it out?

I made a crude Colby Stick out of a relatively straight maple limb with my unipod holding a reflector strapped to it. It worked pretty well. I feel pretty good about these numbers-
169.1'- 7'7"cbh ( measured last week at 167.5, with cbh of 7'9". I also remeasured the circumference since my friend measured them before without knowing too well where to do it)
176.5'- 8'11"cbh (measured before at 175 feet and 8'8")
I measured one other pine at 150.2'- 7'5"cbh. I think that the rest of the pines are closer to this one. There might be one or two over 160, but I don't think so. The two tall ones really don't look very different, just taller. It is very difficult to measure in there.

I next went to Bennett Branch, above the road, this is a really small creek that crosses the road between Cataloochee and Big Creek, I just had never been on the part up above the road, so I decided to check it out. I was really surprised to find one pine, on the side of the ridge going down into the cove, that I just shot up into to get an idea, not really thinking it would be much, but getting 78 yards from not too far away. It really didn't look too big, but I ended up getting 176.3 feet on it, the circumference a modest 9'6". It looks close in years to its height in feet. It's a lonesome pine. A nearby buckeye was 10' 9" and 130.1 feet tall.

On the way out of the valley I stopped and went to the upper flats of Hoglen Branch, a beautiful ancient hemlock grove full of huge mountain laurels with a few big blackgum and some old birch and red maple, just a great place by the road. I don't think there's anything extremely tall, or extremely huge, but overall big, and impressively old. I don't recollect ever measuring the girths of a few fat ones in there, though I might have, or Will might have. But, it was a good reason to go in there again. There are two really massive hemlocks close to each other, both with tops missing. I would have loved to see them with full crowns, though I think they both went topless a long, long time ago. One looks like it broke off at about 60 feet, and a couple of branches took over as terminals and have grown about fifty feet above the break. I measured the circumference at 14'6", with very little taper. The other big one (I call it "Biggy Shorty"- but not in a disrespectful way, mind you) also has very little taper, a massive trunk that breaks also around 60 feet or so, but is only about 80 feet now. I got 15' 4" for the circumference. What a huge trunk! I wandered around the flats for a while, it's just a fantastic place. I measured one more at 14' 6", on the part of the cove above a service road that cuts through the east side. I think there are a few more over 14 feet in there.