SKI SEASON: IT'S BIGGER AND BETTER From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: November 22, 1988| Author: | Copyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Does a ski season dawn that doesn't find us talking about Bigger and Better, More and New?

It's enough to make the ski press ask itself, at least on occasion, the difference between news and hype.

But stop for another look -- or perhaps step back to see where the run of major ski areas was a decade ago -- and, my gollygosh, it's all true! Or at least most of it is.

Every year there are millions spent as the ski areas compete in their ceaseless arms race aimed at creating a perfection of wide, unblemished boulevards of white, the terrain preferred by the mid-range skiers who comprise ...

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