oakapple
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They think they're so clever! That information is meaningless. An acre isn't an acre. Most people are looking for particular types of terrain. I want to look at specifically which parts of the resort are open, to decide whether a visit would be worthwhile. "% open" is completely useless: percent of what? I don't know about you, but when I'm looking at a hill, I don't immediately translate it into a certain number of acres. A few particularly wide, monotonous trails can skew the number significantly. I mean, do you look at a mountain, and say, "Aha! That looks like about 22 acres to me"?
It's not as if Mount Snow invented acreage. The "scorecard" right at the top of Killington's conditions page gives the number of trails, lifts, acres, and miles. I don't look at any of that. I go to the detail, to see of the specific trail-by-trail list, to see if the terrain I'm looking for is open. Click thru to their trails list, and see how much more readable it is than Mount Snow's.
In any event, Mount Snow's measuring system would be a useful point of comparison only if every other resort measured itself the same way. Otherwise, how would you know if their acreage number is good or bad?
Despite their sanctimonious pronouncements, I have not found them much more truthful than anyone else. They need to disabuse themselves of the notion that they are the only truth-tellers in an industry full of liars.
