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High atop the mountain

RALPH DESLAURIERS’S window looks out over the parking lot and dumpsters. He saved the good views – the changing leaves and snow-covered mountains – for his guests. This time of year, there’s rarely time to look out his window anyway. He has to get the ski slopes ready for winter. It’s mid-autumn and snow is already falling at Bolton Valley Resort, in Bolton Valley, Vermont. Ralph, 83, and his children, Lindsay, Evan, and Adam, have a lot of work to do.

It’s only the second winter that the DesLaurierses have owned Bolton. This time around,

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