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EXISTENCE ON A HIGHER PLANE

A Gathering Place
By Molly Walsh ● PHOTOGRAPHS BY SUSAN TEARE

Like a favorite pair of duck boots, this Vermont getaway is meant to be worn. With friends and kids in tow, a New York couple settles in.

THE PLOWS ARE OUT AND THE OPAL-COLORED WINTER SKY HOVERS OVER the knobby face of Mt. Mansfield. The dirt road leading to Jennifer and Joe’s Cambridge, Vt., house is frozen, providing a good excuse to drive slowly and savor the calm as snow swirls in the woods.

As places go, this slice of rural New England ski country seems as distant in mood to New York City’s electric hum as any place could be. And that is the point ...

Reprinted from Ski Mountain Life with permission. © Ski Mountain Life 2006.