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• Lift Maintenance

C.E. "Smitty" Smith starts what will be a regular column in SAM on down-to-earth hints for better lift operations.  ...

Our favorite ski economist, Ted Farwell, has written a very important piece for this issue and it is about pricing of that backbone of your buisness, the lift ticket. Must reading! ...

• Miscellaneous

SAM reports on a tour of western ski resorts by 46 European ski area owners and managers.  ...

• Legal

SAM interviews ski area insurance consultant, Felix Kloman, who draws on his matchless backround to give our readers a balanced and realistic picture of our industry's insurance problems.  ...

• Miscellaneous

Janet Nelson, our General Editor, looks beyond the 1980 Olympics at this big, cold New York mountain and speculates on its future.  ...

• Lifts

Prominent ski area designer, Jay Flood, takes a backward look at master-planning in the laissez faire '60s and compares it with the "bureaucratic '70's" ...

An interesting account of how to get cover using plants rather than seed by Mike Korologos.  ...

• Lifts

Veteran lift engineer, Ed Immergluck, pulls together a systematic way for any area to go about selecting the right lift.  ...

• Lift Maintenance

A companion piece to the one above, Jan Leonard shows you how to to about making the decision between rebuilding, relocating and replacing your lifts. A most useful and timely article.  ...

• Lifts

SAM's Technical Editor, Nils Ericksen, describes the lift maintenance rig he designed and put together at Okemo.  ...