A Weekend in the Smokys

Good day to all of you,

or rather good luck (Glück auf)?! That's right, this weekend was all about spending some time in the Great Smoky Mountains, which are part of the Appalachians. Along with 8 other adventure-seeker I travelled to the mountain range rising along the Tennessee-North Carolina border in the southeastern United States, which is about an 3,5 hours drive and actually quite near to Sugar Mountain. One of our companions, Dominion, has this mindblowingly awesome log cabin that his family owns and he offered this to be our base camp for the weekend. It has a huge kitchen and living room, table tennis, pool billiard and card table, a hot tub, sauna, piano, volleyball field, 2 ponds, some boats, ... literally everything you could possibly want! Dominion's family built this place from scratch and I think they did a marevellous job!
On Saturday we relaxed a little bit after long hours of driving before we eventually went out for a quick hike to a Waterfall nearby. Weary and pleased with ourselfes we returned to the cabin to have some grilled food and used the sauna and hot tub to conclude the evening. Sunday we had a lie-in til noon, and after some lunch we packed our stuff to visit one of the Blue Ridge Mountain hiking trails. Afterwards we returned to Chapel Hill and called it a day. ;)

So that's about it. Hope you like the pictures. Have a good week!

-Jan