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January 1995

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Making Money In The Board Business

A guide to the retail and rental snowboard operations that have proven to be profitable. Written by SAM's snowboard consulting professional. Includes tables of ...

NSAA Moves To Revise Its Relationship With Asf

Written by Staff

An in-depth look at a controversial NSAA board resolution that calls for "substantial reduction" in funding the ski industry's lobbying arm, the Americ...

Lifts 1994

Written by David Rowan

A review of all lifts installed in North America during the year 1994. Includes regional, type, and manufacturer breakdowns along with historical data....

Dander! Water In The Hydraulic Systems Of Ropeway Brakes

Written by Gabor Oplatka, Werner Seethaler

A print version of a presentation given by the author at the 6th OITAF/NACS Syposium, held in September at the Mount Washington Hotel, N.H. The topic i...

The Power Of Empowerment

Written by Robert Hunt

A look at how the management technique of empowering employees has worked at Diamond Peak ski resort in California. Includes mentions of ways to make t...

Snowmaking Automation- Fan

Written by Kevin Bergschneider

A primer on approaches to fan snowmaking technology and a listing of what is available in different levels of automation. Includes a definition of the ...

Channing's Progress

Written by David Rowan

A report on the progress made by Channing Murdock, president of Butternut , Mass., and former chairman of NSAA, after he sustained injuries in a bicycl...

Mixing The Mediums

Written by John A. Rice

An extensive look into the emerging trend of "All-Terrain Parks" which allow for varied terrain for both skiers and snowboarders. Examines the recent t...

Snowboarding's Risk

Written by Lee Crane

A look into the major risk management issues facing snowboarding. Article covers aspects from collisions, to segregation of skiers/snowboarders and saf...

Snowboard Marketing

Written by Linda Goodspeed

An examination on how the rules of marketing are changed when trying to market to snowboarders, based on the assumption that snowboarders do not want t...

Aspen Ski School's New Philosophy

Written by Madeleine Osberger

A review of Aspen's ski school and how they formed their own seperate business in the same style as Aspen's Little Nell hotel. Supervisory positions we...

The Year Of The Ski Guide

Written by Dinah Witchel

A review of this years crop of new ski guides. Included are: Peak Ski Guide, The Insider's Guide to Skiing The East, and the Yellow Pages of Skiing. In...

Roxy: An Appreciation

Written by Lew Cuyler

An obituary for Roxy Rothafel, a legendary ski reporter, who died in October at his home in Massachussetts.

Radio Redux

Written by Kathe Dillmann

A SAM survey of 50 areas that use radio advertising. Here are the results along with tables and charts. Topics covered include: who buys, when, where a...

Business Planning Software

Written by Robert Macdonald

A comprehensive guide to business planning software that has proven beneficial to ski resorts. The author offers advice on what the needs are and gives...

Food For Liability

Written by Robert Rubin

A guide to the legal scene concerning food for public consumption. Covers such topics as liability, precedents, determining legal factors and defense t...

U. S. Instruction: Is It Broken?

Written by Robin Smith

An interpretation of a Snow Country survey of North American ski schools and how they are failing. Written by the co-chair of the NSAA/PSIA task force,...

Eurocentricity And Interski

Written by David Rowan

A look into the organizational structure of Interski, the International Association for Ski Instruction, and how it seems to be losing efectiveness in ...

Support For Asf

Written by David Rowan

An initial look at NSAA's withdrawal of funding to the ski industry's lobbying arm, the American Ski Federation (ASF), an unprecedented move that refle...