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Haute Property NEWS, STARS, AND TRENDS IN REAL ESTATE Stowe Away WHAT STARTED AS A WINTER SKI RETREAT BECOMES A YEAR-ROUND FAMILY VACATION HOME. BY MARNI ELYSE KATZ Anchored by its four-star, multilevel hotel (PICTURED), Stowe Mountain is offering luxury ski cabins for sale. T PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF STOWE MOUNTAIN LODGE he first thing that you need to know about Alicia Abad Tappe, a health care advocate in Weston, is that she is madly and deeply in love with Stowe. In fact, when she fell in love with a man (not a town) named Andrew, the couple was married at the Stowe Mountain Lodge, just steps away from the condo that Alicia had bought the year before and the property's 18-hole wilderness golf course. It was too early in the season to ski that morning, but golf was a full-on go. "It was flurrying, but we still played, all of us in winter hats and gloves," Tappe recalls. Since then, the couple has returned to Stowe every Columbus Day weekend to celebrate their anniversary, and every Labor Day weekend they ride in an annual 100-mile bike race to benefit the nearby Mt. continued on page 160 BOSTONCOMMON-MAGAZINE.COM 159-160_BC_HP_Opener_Holiday_13.indd 159 159 11/1/13 4:08 PM