In This Issue
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What’s New?
Trash compactor (Orwak), Impakt! maintenance software (TecWorks), Aquatic pool matting (Martin Nicholls), miniature golf courses (Lomma), Boulder Buster (BDS, Inc.), bio-enzyme treatment…
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Viking Brings Smiles to Lift Lines
Pull into the parking lot of Norway Mountain, Mich., on any winter weekend and a burly, bearded Viking in a horned helmet…
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Remembering
Bill Tanler by David Rowan Bill Tanler’s was not a household name on the area side of the ski industry except for…
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Skål, Jerry
It feels good to be able to write something nice about someone in these columns without it being an obituary. So, let’s…
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Olympic Valley Heroes
The extraordinary floods and mud slides that hit California over New Year’s were calamitous in many ways (see pages 52 – 53),…
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Hail to the [new] Chief
Mike Dombeck is the new Forest Service Chief and thus a very important person to our industry. One of his first acts…
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Shaped Skis—Two SAM Views
I—A Revolution That Failed? by Janet Nelson The ski magazines claim it’s a revolution. Manufacturers say they are creating the weapons that…
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Get Ready for the Snowplayers
From his office at Mountain High ski area in southern California, General Manager Karl Kapuscinski is following several trends, the first of…
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Bringing Snowmaking to the Public
In the winter of 1995-96, when Smuggler’s Notch, Vt., embarked on a $4.5 million, five-year investment in snowmaking upgrades, the family-oriented area…
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Where Still More Children Are
One-Man Show in Washington In Kirkland, Wash., John Mohan has made it his mission, and his job, to bring people to winter…
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Reaching Kids Through Snowboarding
For most ski area operators, being active in the community is an important part of public relations. In Washington state, four areas—Snoqualmie,…
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MVP: Lewis Mead, Attitash Bear Peak, N.H.
Mention Lewis Mead to employees at Attitash Bear Peak, N.H., and they immediately ask, “Has he told you any stories?” Mead’s stories…
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20 Years Ago in SAM
Twenty years ago the industry was finishing up what SAM described as a “very strange winter.” The East had never had it…
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The Shaping of Industry Marketing
The ski area industry—a term that may soon be obsolete if we reconstitute ourselves as the mountain resort industry, or some such—is…
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freeze—new ski culture
There’s this new killer mag out called freeze, started by The Skiing Company, the people who publish a couple of the old-school…
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Plug That Leak!
Underground pipeline repair can be a huge headache for maintenance engineers. Ruptures of weakened underground pipes may cause floods, loss of water…
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Construction Site
Vail Vail’s new on-mountain activity center at Eagle’s Nest, called Adventure Ridge, just keeps on growing. New outdoor options include an ice-skating…
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From Badlands to Good Skiing
Badlands might seem to be an unlikely place for a ski area. They are characterized by a dry climate and terrain eroded…
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DC Drives: Inspection, Cleaning, Lubrication and Overhauls
This is the third of three articles on maintaining ski lift DC drive motors. The earlier articles (in the 1996 May and…
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Lift-Loading Made Easy
Six seconds seemed to be the right amount of time for skiers to load onto the new high-speed, six-passenger lift that was…
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When the Colonel Came to Town
Even 21 years after retiring from Her Majesty’s service, Jimmie Spencer is still every inch a British army colonel. His upright posture,…
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On the Road to New Profits
Tubing or not tubing—that is no longer the question. The decision for many ski areas is not whether, but where to put…
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And then the Rains Came…and Came
Much of California’s ski industry was under siege for 30 days from Christmas to the end of January as a one-two punch…
