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OVER THE PAST couple of years, the corporate mammoths of the ski industry have been on a buying spree. Vail Resorts added Vermont’s Stowe and British Columbia’s Whistler Blackcomb to a portfolio that already included Colorado’s Vail, Beaver Creek and Breckenridge, for a total of 11 ski areas; the consortium of Aspen SkiingCompany and KSL Capital Partners purchased such top-shelf destinations as Steamboat, Colo., Mammoth, Calif. and Deer Valley, Utah.
But for many skiers and snowboarders, bigger operations aren’t necessarily…