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• Snowmaking

Yes, you can alter the seasons says Paul Robbins ...

• Marketing

A look at pricing's ups and downs with Pam Conklin ...

Changes explained by Chuck Dwyer ...

• Legal

Contrary results in the Killington and Snowmass units.  ...

• Lifts
• Regulation

Learn the plays with a table of contents by Sam Bonasso ...

Bob Woodward discusses touring's loss of innocence ...

• Racing

Tom Corcoran advises against smug satisfaction, for unless junior programs are improved, our racing teams may be headed downhill.  ...

• Grooming
• Trail Maintenance

A photo essay on the care and grooming of the season's pristine snow at Beaver Creek. ...

• Miscellaneous

Janet Nelson looks at the dreams of those who would make it possible to ski from Park City to Brighton to Solitude to Alta to Snowbird.  ...

• Lifts

The second seminar produced some outstanding technical papers and provocative ideas, as well as good humored observations.  ...

• Lifts

From the Vail Seminar, the Zermatt underground funicular's advantages and engineering are examined and compared to aerial carriers.  ...

• Lift Maintenance

Another Vail Seminar paper in which maintenance is performed according to logic, sub systems and records to produce better results.  ...

• Ski Area Profiles

A profile in profit about an area that improves as it grows and makes money along the way, by Bob Goligoski.  ...

• Ski School

Mort Lund says this year's phrase for profits is "affinity group", a technique that's been successful in selling and psyching people in many realms.  ...

• Ski Patrol

An exciting behind-the-scenes look at how the dog search units operated during the Alpine meadows avalanche catastrophe last spring, by Sandy Bryson.  ...