In This Issue
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Rolling Into Summer
Our cover shot of an inline skater getting air corresponds to a piece on building skate parks. This article is not available…
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The End Page
The Great Keystone Survivor Caper where five people spent up to a month in a gondola cabin suspended from a crane. The…
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What’s New?
ZEM, SnowQUEST, Amaze’n Mazes, Thomas Instruments, The Skier’s Edge, Sitour’s RRN, Swede-Attach spreader, Slingshot virtual sliding, Bachtold Bros., K2 Snowcycle, Kwik boot…
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Trends: A New Toy is Coming
If you’ve seen kids scudding around snow-covered town parks or the base area, jibbing your parking-lot railings on what appear to be…
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FRanklin Bowers-Industry Model
Frank Bowers died last year at the age of 67. He worked for Hall Ski-Lift and its successor, Von Roll Tramways, for…
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A Growing Disconnect
Over and over again, the surveys show the same thing: cost of skiing and boarding is not a major hurdle. What a…
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It’s You; Not the Equipment
We’re all aware of the usual lists of reasons for why we are having troubles increasing participation in our sports. And the…
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A Consumer Challenges: Why the despicable instruction monopoly?
I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction with the strong-arm tactics imposed by ski resorts which have created a monopoly of…
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Keeping Safety Up Front
The National Ski Areas Association’s (NSAA) second annual National Safety week in January has become much more than just another week-long promotion…
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Blue Pages
Musical Chairs, Washington Style The Bush presidency is bringing all sorts of new dynamics to the many issues of public land management:…
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Idea Files
Idea #1: T-Bar Golf Green If not for the T-bar, it looks exactly like the green on your favorite golf course. Mike…
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Zeth Says: Party with the Guests
Slats Grabski ventured up-valley last month to crash one of the freebie cocktail parties held during the NSAA Winter Conference at Vail.…
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When Strong Metals Fail
When steel components break, one of two mechanisms is usually behind the failure: overload, where the parts are overstressed and fail immediately…
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Reports
Court Decides for Jiminy Peak Citing assumption of risk, a Massachusetts jury decided in favor of Jiminy Peak, Mass., on February 8…
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Piling on the Extras
While every ski area is looking for ways to squeeze more dollars from the business, the smaller ski areas must be extra…
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Economical and Civilized Lift Seating
Contour loading on high-speed lifts, while used in gondola loading for a long time, is gaining popularity for chairlifts. Though European ski…
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Instruction: Practice Makes Perfect
Once the snow finally melts, instructors often put their teaching skills in the closet with their parkas and boards. But Sherman White,…
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Tarzan for a Day
Take equal parts Tarzan and James Bond, add a safety tether and mix with rope bridges and zip lines in the trees…
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Feeding the Beast
When American Skiing Company was formed in 1996 with the purchase of SKI Ltd., the first project the new company undertook was…
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From Resort Waste to Regional Resource
Colonel Sherman Potter would be proud. After all, stepping in “horse hockey,” as he put it, was akin to a walk through…
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Golf Meets Frisbee
What sport tests players against an established par, uses tees and holes, has a professional tournament circuit and uses Frisbees to score?…
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More Than a Drive
For golf-course designer Ron Garl, a driving range is a driving range, whether for practice or for teaching. “The short game—from 100…
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Maximum Golf School
It begins with a call from Brenda offering advice; things like, as you approach the resort there is a 25 mph sign,…
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Skates, Boards, Plywood and Asphalt
Slant walls, pyramids, fun boxes, corner elbows and rails … all part of the jargon that describes the hits for a successful…
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Getting Into Bed Together
“We keep being told about fixes for the ski resort industry, but they never quite seem to work,” says Pat O’Donnell, president…
