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• Lift Maintenance

The second of Smitty's useful, idea-filled columns on all facets of maintenance.  ...

• Ski School

Ski writer Abby Rand describes some of the Inner Skiing, Centered Skiing and other approaches to teaching-but from the marketing angle for the ski area.  ...

• Marketing

Al Greenberg, Editor-in-chief of Skiing Magazine reveals some of the stratling statistics their research has turned up, and discusses some of the implications for the ski resorts.  ...

• Miscellaneous

Ski writer Charlie Meyers follows up on the publicity scandal/crisis that hit the rockies last winter, and draws some conclusions.  ...

• Lift Maintenance

Philip Berger presents a technical paper on the various design philosophies and the actual devices for detection of deropement.  ...

Architect Henrik Bull, whose artices have appeared several times in SAM, says that "A collapsed day lodge could ruin your whole day".  ...

• Ski Area Profiles

The first in a series of articles where we put the focus on areas, large and small, which share one common characteristic: their ability to turn a profit. Tedee Grace has the first, and it is on Devil's Head Wisconsin.  ...