Hilking trails at equinox resort1/11/2024 ![]() It’s a singular experience, to be high enough that your toes are on the same level as a cloud rolling by. A cloud rolled up from my left, close enough to touch, wiping out the view below and ahead, first to my left, and then in front of me, and onwards this cloud rolled to my right, a wall of gray mist. The wind was pushing clouds along the sky. This wall is topped with flat stones and during one visit I stepped up on that stone wall, and looked out from near the top of the mountain. When you do drive up, there’s a parking lot at the top surrounded by a low stone wall. My husband and I have driven up to the top. I’ve never hiked this mountain, although I hope to some day. I myself would not relocate from temperate Tennessee to cold Vermont, but he must have had his reasons, just as I do mine. The road was created, and eleven square miles of this mountain was once owned, by Joseph George Davidson, who retired to Vermont after working as the head of Union Carbide’s “gaseous diffusion” project at Oak Ridge, in which uranium was refined and used in the fission of the atomic bombs of WWII. To get to the top, you have the choice of hiking up the side through the woods, or paying the Carthusian monks at the foot of the mountain for a token to drive up the five miles of hairpin turns of private road to the top. It’s a mountain of hardwood forests, the mountain itself largely marble, and any buildings are few and far between. Equinox Mountain overlooks the town of Manchester, Vermont.
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