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Cold Temperatures Bolster Resort Openings
SAM Magazine-Vail, Nov. 23, 2007-After a warm November in many parts of North America, resorts from coast to coast are swinging into action, thanks…
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Crested Butte Slashes Ticket Prices For Competitor’s Pass Holders
SAM Magazine – Mt. Crested Butte, Colo., November 19, 2007- Crested Butte sees an opportunity in November’s Rocky Mountain dry spell. With many Colorado…
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Warm Weather Delays Rocky Mountain Openings
SAM Magazine – Vail, Co., November 15, 2007 – It’s hot! Too hot, actually. In a mirror image of last year’s slow start for…
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RCR Eliminates Manmade Hits from Its Parks
SAM Magazine-Calgary, Alberta, Nov. 12, 2007-Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR), is giving big air a big kiss-off. “All man-made snow jumps will be…
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Night Skiing and Big Eastern Vertical Highlight Latest Openings
SAM Magazine-Mammoth Mountain, Calif., Nov. 9, 2007-More ski resorts are announcing openings by the day, if not the hour. In the Midwest, Ski Brule…
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Build Your Own Park at Grouse Mountain
SAM Magazine-North Vancouver, B.C., Nov. 7, 2007-Grouse Mountain is launching a groundbreaking-or at least snow-moving-program called Build Your Own Park. This gives passholders and…
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Grand Targhee Adds Employee Housing
SAM Magazine-Driggs, Id., Nov. 7, 2007-Grand Targhee Resort has purchased new employee housing just north of town here, in the Buffalo Valley Condominiums. The…
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Game On! Resorts Opening Across North America
SAM Magazine-Breckenridge, Colo., Nov. 7, 200 -Skiers will have plenty to celebrate this weekend as the ski season kicks off in earnest, with resorts…
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Windham and Hunter Offer Joint Ticket Option
SAM Magazine-Windham, N.Y., Nov. 6, 2007-A mere eight miles apart, Hunter Mountain and Windham are offering visitors an inexpensive way to sample the disparate…
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Keystone Opens Ahead of Schedule
SAM Magazine-Keystone, Colo., Nov. 2, 2007-Keystone’s 2007-2008 season started today at 9 a.m., a week earlier than planned, thanks to more than two feet…
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East West, Morgan Stanley Partner on Canadian Village
SAM Magazine-Canmore, Alberta, Nov. 1, 2007-Colorado-based East West Partners and Morgan Stanley Real Estate have acquired Three Sisters Mountain Village, a 1,800-acre partially completed…
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Trick or Treat: Sunday River Opens for Halloween
SAM Magazine-Sunday River, Me., Oct. 31, 2007-What a difference a year makes. Unlike last fall, when snowmaking across the East was stymied by unseasonably…
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SIA Trade Show Moves to Denver in 2010
SAM Magazine-Denver, Oct. 30, 2007-Snowsports Industries America is moving its annual trade show to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver in 2010, ending more…
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Eastern Areas Begin Snowmaking Operations
SAM Magazine-Bethel, Maine, Oct. 29, 2007-Sunday River and Sugarloaf, Maine, and Bretton Woods and Attitash, N.H., are among the handful of Eastern areas that…
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Pay Rates At Issue in Telluride
SAM Magazine – Telluride, Colo., October 29, 2007 – Dave Riley, Telluride’s new CEO, is creating controversy in this southern Colorado ski town. Riley…
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California’s Trinity Mountain Torched by Fire
SAM Magazine-Green Valley Lake, Calif., Oct. 29, 2007-Trinity Mountain Resort was burned last week by the Slide fire. No lives were lost, but ten…
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JMA Ventures Buys Red Lodge Mountain Resort
SAM Magazine-Red Lodge, Mont., Oct. 26, 2007-An affiliate of JMA Ventures, LLC has purchased Red Lodge Mountain Resort. JMA has, in the past eighteen…
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Vail Hits Dead End at The Canyons
SAM Magazine-Denver, Oct. 23, 2007-After Vail spent approximately $2 million in an attempt to prevent the American Skiing Company (ASC) from selling The Canyons…