Stowe is ski town in the middle of some of Vermont’s high mountains. I first visited the Stowe area on a hiking trip near Mt. Mansfield with my Montreal church group when I was a student. Many years later I returned while on my way for a visit to Canada and got to see the town itself and more of the mountain views around. Both times I was there in summer, so the trees were full and green and you could see the unused ski trails running through them. (1998, 2012)
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The lodge of the famous Van Trapps (i.e. the family highlighted in the “Sound of Music”) who moved to Vermont after escaping Nazi Germany
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The town hall at Stowe
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This is what a lot of the trail was like along the way—lined with stones and easy to walk up but just very steep. Don’t fall or you’re in trouble!
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Here’s somebody playing “King of the Hill” up on one of the really big rocks at the base of the mountain.
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