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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)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 17, 1994
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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.
Skiers should get used to ...
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