Article: Snow job on the slopes: ski resorts market themselves with numbers that tend to be slippery. Heres what counts. (includes directory of affordable ski resorts)

Trailblazers aren't what they used to be. At Vermont's Sugarbush ski resort, for instance, mountain planners created 19 new trails last season without breaking new ground. Several long, single-name trails were split into "upper" and "lower" sections, and a few short, previously unnamed cutovers were labeled, raising the trail count but adding no new skiable terrain. That gave Sugarbush 107 trails--the same number as at Killington, its nearby rival. So Killington created some trails of its own, jumping to 155--using a pencil instead of a bulldozer, like Sugarbush. Both resorts now sound more impressive, although they look about the same.

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