Often the best remedy for the winter blahs is to just jump into the cold and embrace it with a good workout. In Vermont, where they know a thing or two about getting outdoors, hotels in a couple of our favorite towns have dreamed up some imaginative cures to energize their guests before they pamper them.

The Woodstock Inn & Resort, in the center of the picturesque village of the same name, already has a Nordic center for cross-country skiing and a private ski mountain amusingly named Suicide Six that ha…