Up a winding road from the improbably but aptly named town of Eden, Utah, is the Summit Skylodge, a boho-chic ski chalet meets yurt at an elevation of 9,000 feet. There, on a Friday night in June, I’m talking to a thin, heavily bearded 33-year-old app company owner and hotelier named Rameet Chawla, who is telling me about the boutique hotel he wants to open in upstate New York in a month and a half. “We haven’t closed the deal yet,” he says, “but the day after we close, I’m opening.”
Chawla, who is clad in slim-cut pants, a long button-down shirt, and a fedora, is one of 50 attendees at Summit Series’s Summer Solstice weekend, a gathering of mostly twenty- and thirtysomethings who, over the course of three days,…
