In This Issue
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Pete Totemoff, Allison Merrill And Harold Hirsch
One of several obituaries for ski area pioneers and industry leaders Pete Totemoff, Allison Merrill, and Harold Hirsch.
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Ski School: Station Teaching
Last winter, the ski school at Crested Butte in Colorado tried something new. Instead of dividing new skiers into groups for typical…
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Ski Reports
USIA staffs up with seven appointments Heading the list of important new staff appointments at USIA is Sid Roslund, who has been…
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Ski Industry Focus
Do Statistics Tell the Story? Not snowfall but a falling stock market, S&L fallout, a fall in consumer confidence and rising gasoline…
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Research Reports
The 1989 American Sports Analysis, which measures participation by Americans in a wide variety of activities, counted 14,435,000 downhill ski participants over…
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Summer Reports
Construction was generally down this summer in all regions of the country, with summer grading the project of choice, as U.S. ski…
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Issues-Labor Woes In The Kingdom Of Aspen
As I walk through one of the world’s greatest winter resorts, I see a natural beauty that is rivaled only by the…
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Consultant’s Corner
We all learned to be negotiators. It may have been as a child trading marbles in the school yard or as a…
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Keeping Safe
To most ski industry people, the term “risk management” means protection from law suits. In reality, that’s correct only 25 percent of…
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Hungry Skier
Principal, High Mountain Management Before the next ski season begins, every food and beverage manager needs to examine the previous season’s performances.…
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Environment And Growth
In Greek mythology, one of the tougher navigational feats was to go between the treacherous rock called Scylla and the awesome whirlpool,…
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Vic-Vac Sells With Service
If Mickey Smith has his way, Victoria Vacations won’t be a secret for long. Smith, formerly majority owner and operator of Advance…
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Pressure On New England Real Estate Market
June 23: Forest Ridge, a condo complex across from Loon Mountain at the southern edge of New Hampshire’s White Mountain, holds a…
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Constructive Destruction
Destroying a working chairlift could be considered an affront to modern tramway technology. Old chairlifts never die, but are usually rebuilt at…
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Is There A ” Best” Air Pressure?
Vice President, Engineering, Sno-engineering Inc. Recently, controversy has been growing over the question of optimal compressed air pressure for snowmaking. Until a…
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No Snow, But Still They Show
Overlooking a sheep-mown golf course at the edge of an Edinburgh suburb, Scotland’s Hillend Ski Center has been operating for 26 years.…
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A Calm, Strong Voice In Vermont
I can remember years ago picking up a copy of the 1947 East High School yearbook. The introductory page was written by…
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Award-Winning Day Lodges
Ski area operators are keenly aware that, while the growth in the numbers of skiers has leveled off, their demands and expectations…
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Recycle Or Die
The issue of the 90’s is a five-letter word: trash. Who cares about trash? Demographically, surveys indicate that wealthier and better-educated Americans…
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Why Is This Water Blue?
Three years ago, the engineers at Killington, Vt., decided to get a jump on the problem of wastewater. They devised an innovative…
