The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-28
TUESDAY. JUNE IS, 1921
SEE VERMONT FIRST.

\ hotel situated on a mountain 1000
feet high. dependent for all supplies on
auto-truck communication with the
world beneath, would hardly be expected
to have a very flexible organization, yet
the management of the Mount Mansfield
Summit house, which has an advertised
maximum capacity of go, took excellent
care of more than 50 members and guests
of the Vermont Press association Satur-
day night To be sure, the arrangement
necessitated cheerful cooperation on the
part of the visitors, not a few of whom
made the best of sleeping Accommodations
of makeshift variety, but the important
fact is that all were treated with a com
bination of cordiality and courtesy that
they will long remember as conspicuous
example of real hospitality.
As for Mansfield itself, it is a truly
inspiring mountain which reaches sky
ward more than 4 400 feet at its highest
point and affords a view which no Ordi-
nary writer would have the hardihood
to attempt to describe. Its accessibility,
remarkable considering its height, is due
in no small measure to the enterprise of
the residents of Stowe village, who, with
Max L. Powell of Burlington and few
others are spending more than $4,000
on the road which leads to the hotel, but
few hundred feet lower than the high
est point of the ridge.
Residents of southern Vermont who
are in sympathy with the idea of seeing
their own state first should make Mans
field the objective point of their next
weekend automobile tour, for if love
Iof nature and pride in Vermont are
among the attributes of their character
they cannot make a trip to it's summit
without having the one gratified and the
other stimulated. From Brattleboro to
the top of the mountain by automobile
is approximately $50 miles over the most
direct route, and the driver who doesn't
fancy sending his machine up a five-mile
hill where the grade in places is over 20
per cent, may shift at Stowe to a service
able ten-passenger truck that is as GER
tain as anything dependent upon gaso-
line is certain, to get him safely to the
hotel.
For an all-Vermont tour that can be
made easily in two days and a half the
one which the Press association members
took last week would be difficult to i'm
prove upon. Starting at Brattleboro in
the early afternoon, one may take one of
several routes to Woodstock, the dis
lance varying from so to 80 miles, de
pendent upon the choice. After a night
at the Woodstock Inn, whose setting.
service and cuisine quickly explain the
popularity of this well known hostelry.
the next days journey may well be made
by way of what is sometimes called the
ard Gulf and past Silver lake to Roches-
ter and thence through Hancock. Gran
vile, Warren, Waitsfield, Moretown and
Duxbury to Waterbury. From there the
run to the foot of the mountain is a
short one, little more than p miles. and
the journey up a low-gear proposition
from base to summit.
Starting from Woodstock at a. m,
one does not have to drive faster than
is comfortable over the excellent gravel
roads along this route to reach Stowe by
p. M, and with good luck he should be
at the top of Mansfield an hour later.
There are almost innumerable ways in
which the return trip may be varied, but
to make it comfortably in a day without
the necessity of an early start the route
by way of Waterbury, Montpelier, Barre
and Williamstown gulf isNsecommended.