BACKROADS • SEPTEMBER 2021
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WE’RE OUTTA HERE
a weekend destinationkeeping you on the backroads
SNOWED INN
104 MILLER BROOK RD, KILLINGTON, VT 05751 802-422-3407 • snowedinn.com We love to get recommendations for our monthly columns. It makes our job a bit easier to have a reader/rider point us in the right direction. And when a suggestion comes from people we’ve known and traveled with for so many years, it’s that much more trustworthy. Such was the case with this month’s We’re Outta Here. Long-time riding companions Danny Herbst and Paul Moulins had just spent a few days in Vermont, riding the fabulous roads it has to offer, and upon their return, Danny sent us an email which highly recommended we take a spin to Killington in the near future to check out the Snowed Inn. As we had a few days free and the weather was supposed to be just about perfect, we made our plans. If you read ‘Shira’s Sojourn’ in the August 2021 issue, you’ll know that I took point on this trip and, in my inimitable fashion, found some dirt to keep us on our toes, literally. Once over the mountain, or more precisely around it, we rode into Killington, past the various restaurants and made the turn onto Miller Brook Rd. As we pulled up to the beautiful and welcoming Snowed Inn, Brian and I looked at each other and I said, ‘We’ve been here before.’ Indeed, many years prior, with different owners, we had spent an evening at the Snowed Inn. The wood and stone façade was the same, cleaned and polished, but Carolyn Kepcher and Ken Peters had given the old girl a good shaking out, sprucing up and added some upgrades. Jeanne and Manfred Karlhuber had run the inn for 37 years, having bought it in 1984 as a small, non-descript 4-room guest house of 1960s vintage. In February 2021 they handed the keys to Carolyn and Ken, now with 16 rooms in the main lodge as well as a chalet with a 1-bedroom master suite, a 2-bedroom suite and a studio suite. With bikes parked and unpacked, we followed the smell of freshly-baked cookies, a lovely way that Carolyn greets her guests. We settled in with a
