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November 1999

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Featured Story

Less Recreation, More Preservation?

The November cover is a humourous rendition of two Canada lynxs posting a no-skier sign in their territory--it refers to the U.S. Forest Service plan to rewrite...

Industry Reports, multiple titles

Mountain Creek Lodge Destroyed by Fire; Whitetail Purchase Completed; Lookout Pass Sold; Vail Expansion to Open this Season; Major New Sponsorships for...

Growth Issues: Crossroads in Colorado

This commentary opens a special section exploring the question of expansion vs. conservation as demonstrated by a series of events in Colorado. The com...

The Lynx: Coming to a Ski Area Near You?

Best's piece explores the issues behind the elusive Canada lynx, which if designated as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in January, 20...

Vail's Category III Project: A Case Study

This piece (Part of a special section on the environment) details Vail's journey through the planning and approval process for the Cat III (Blue Sky Ba...

Forest Service Plan would Limit Colorado Skiing

This article (part of a special section on environmental matters facing skiing) explains the impacts of the forest service's preferred Alternative D fo...

Methow Valley: A Profile in Profit

This piece, about Washington's Methow Valley, now a cross-country paradise, explains how a popular summer resort area increased year-round profits by d...

Against All Odds in New Jersey

When Intrawest took over the former Vernon Valley/Great Gorge, N.J., and turned it into Mountain Creek, the first team to arrive found lots of potentia...

Tubes, Skibikes and the Zorb, What's Next?

A roundup of the alternative sliding equipment (not skis or snowboards) available for rent at ski areas. Includes a list of manufacturers and contact n...

Innovation Returns to Breckenridge

This article details the construction of the country's first double-loading six-passenger lift. It happened to replace the world's first high-speed qua...

Two Legal Sides to the Fence

This article outlines two legal cases involving skiers who were injured as a result of collisions with fences. The author analyzes the outcomes and put...

Heads Up: New National Safety Call to Action

A story about the NSAA's recent kickoff of its Safety Initiative 2000 to help ski areas educate guests about the Your Responsibility Code. It comes com...

Alcohol-Server Training Reduces Risk

With a sidebar on the Top 10 tips for safe service, this piece talks about proper training and how it will lead to reduced liability and happier guests...

Skiing With Style: Sugar Bowl 60 Years

This is a book review of "Skiing with Style" by Robert Frohlich with S.E. Humphries. It's a celebration of the people and trends that made Sugar Bowl w...

OSHA Clarifies Lift-Tower Climbing

This article outlines new regulations as a result of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's clarified position on fall protection for clim...

The Future of Booking Rooms Starts with a Click

This article explores the trend toward real-time online bookings and some of the ways in which ski resorts can take advantage of customers set up and w...

Finding the Best Teen Workers

The article points out a number of steps and procedures resort managers can take to ferret out and capture the most motivated teen workers for a season...

Seth Says: How Not to Use E-mail

Seth's humourous account of a fictitious, multi-message e-mail correspondence between a customer and resort illustrates the point that ski resorts need...

Letters

A letter from Dick Tillson, president of Ski Hawaii, on our "Helicopter Rescue Options" story in September, 1999, and Alfred Auer whose issue of SAM wa...

Construction Site

Projects, mostly new lift construction, at Snowshoe, W.V.; Alpine Valley, Wisc.; Jay Peak, Vt.; Jackson Hole, Wyo.; Deer Valley, Utah; Welch Village, M...

Idea Files

Snowmobile flasher on sleds at Seven Springs, Pa.; a plug saver for stop gate connections at Rocking Horse Ranch, N.Y. and using hay bales to stop tube...

Blue Pages

Skiing and Clinton's Enviro Legacy (Roadless Initiative); Moshe Alamaro and His Urban Iceberg (making snow mounds for New England water sources); K2 La...

End Page

Rotating wire rop spool with suspended ATV; leveling a lift tower with various-length bolts; Snowmaking web page by a proud father; Funny signs at reso...

Pre-Season Bookings

Linda provides a look into pre-season bookings for the 1999-2000 season across the continent.

Stop the Music, I Want to Get Off

John's take asks, what's so wrong about serenity and quiet? John speaks to the ways various ski areas use music on the slopes.

Parents Ski Free?/Will the 1999 Outdoor Retail Summer Market Leave a Meaningful Mark? Erwin Wieland Retires; Doug Waugh, Alex Lowe Die

Turner's piece says to heck with children-ski-free programs, gain more publicity by offering a parents-ski-free package: no kid, no ride; Roger Lohr wo...

A Very Special Section

The memo outlines the section in the Novemebr issue dealing with the U.S. Forest Service's Alternative D, the relationship between the Forest Service a...