In This Issue
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Inner Game
What would be the reaction if someone defined a ski teaching technique which enabled students to learn in half the time, improved…
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NSAA Newsletter
It gives me great pleasure to welcome the members of the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Ski Areas Association. In a…
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Issues
We hereby inaugurate a new feature in SAM: Issues. In it we intend to address those issues that are current and of…
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Idea File
Editor’s note: this is another edition of Nils Ericksen’s Idea File. Its success depends on you, our readers, sharing your ideas with…
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Report
Expansion plans for the 1976-77 season are the biggest in years, with the emphasis on lift construction and snowmaking, rather than housing.…
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New Products
In response to the new B-77 ANSI requirements, effective with the 1976-77 season, that there be “periodic testing and adjustment of the…
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Letters
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Speak Out
With the NSAA convention returning to the Broadmoor we must briefly reminisce, because it was there, just 14 years ago that NSAA…
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I Win You Win
The best paid, well-trained, ski area employees can blow their cool under the stress of a holiday rush, a lift down, screwed…
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High Cost Of Capital Vs The Risks
The recent Haskell hearings concerning S.2125, the proposed new USFS Land Lease bill, has provided the industry with the opportunity to take…
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Effective Brochures
It wasn’t just another party of ski people who would sit around and discuss the ski business. I had planned an unusual…
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Controlled Maintenance
Paul D. Tomlingson, management consultant, industrial maintenance, Denver, Colo., and Gary McGraw, lift manager, Winter Park, Colo. Paperwork. Most busy maintenance men…
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Testing Snowguns
Ratnik Industries, Inc. Today, more and more areas are doing their own snow gun testing. A set of flow meters, whether fixed…
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Lubricating Wire Rope
Chief wire rope sales engineer, Paulsen-Webber Cordage Corp. Field lubrication photos and captions courtesy of Daniel O’Connor & Sons. The haul rope…
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Early Start On Plastic
Artificial skiing surfaces are not new. What is new today is the increased interest in these surfaces to meet new marketing opportunities.…
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Wanted– Two Used Chairlifts
This past year we bought and installed two second-hand beginners’ chairlifts—one for Ski Roundtop in Lewisberry, Pa., and the other for our…
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The Stowe Carnival
There is a famous business axiom: “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” Don’t believe it. If the Mount Mansfield…
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The Christie Saga
This is John Christie’s story — a man who went through the ski area management business in 15 years. Ski patrol, trail…
