The North Carolina Mountains—Boone, Sugar Mountain, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock—was a whole new Appalachian world opening before the eyes of Barbara Hallowell and her husband, Tom, when they decided to leave hot Sarasota, Florida, summers for the cool of the mountains in 1980. Cabin: A Mountain Adventure chronicles the Hallowell family's time in the Western North Carolina Mountains and the effect that it would always have on their lives.