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Empty Chair Falls From Lift at Heavenly
SAM Magazine—South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Jan. 6, 2016—A carrier traveling on the downhill side of Heavenly Mountain Resort’s North Bowl chairlift detached from the…
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Mother Nature Played Santa, Scrooge Over Christmas Holidays
SAM Magazine—Dover, Vt., Jan. 6, 2016—It was a tale of two sides. One side was bountiful with business up and deep snow. The other…
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Drone use at our area is
* a way for our guests to produce their own content * how we create some cool marketing videos * a PR challenge due…
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Stein Eriksen, Patriarch of Modern Skiing, Dies at 88
SAM Magazine—Park City, Utah, Dec. 28, 2015—Stein Eriksen, the legendary alpine skier often credited as a founder of modern skiing, died on Sunday, Dec.…
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Bookings Lagging at Western Resorts Despite Snow
Photo credit: Park City Mountain. SAM Magazine—Denver, Colo., Dec. 23, 2015—Despite prolific snowfall since the beginning of November at western resorts, the most recent…
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SIA to Shift Snow Show Date, Format in December 2017
SAM Magazine—Washington, D.C., Dec. 23, 2015—SnowSports Industries America (SIA) is reinventing the SIA Snow Show with an updated format, and shifting it nearly two…
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Morrison to Direct Ski Operations at Otsego Club & Resort
SAM Magazine—Gaylord, Mich., Dec. 23, 2015—Otsego Club & Resort has appointed Jeff Morrison as its new director of ski operations. Morrison’s responsibilities include overseeing…
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Blackcomb to Host National Freestyle Training Center
SAM Magazine—Whistler, B.C., Dec. 23, 2015—Blackcomb has signed an agreement with the Whistler Blackcomb Freestyle Ski Club (WBFSC) and the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association…
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Weather Makes Eastern Areas Get Creative
SAM Magazine—Dover, Vt., Dec. 22, 2015—With the reality of this mild start to the winter in much of the eastern half of the continent…
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Park City Ski Patrollers Vote to Unionize
SAM Magazine—Park City, Utah, Dec. 16, 2015—By a narrow margin, ski patrollers at Park City voted on Monday to unionize. The preliminary tally was…
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Special Report: Can Resorts Make Lemonade Out of a Weather Lemon?
SAM Magazine—Dover, Vt., Dec. 16, 2015—It’s no secret that snow has been a scarce commodity everywhere but out West so far this winter—a far…
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Silverton Mountain Adds Tim Petrick as COO
SAM Magazine—Silverton, Colo., Dec. 9, 2015—Tim Petrick is joining Silverton Mountain Ski Area and Silverton Mountain Guides Alaska Heli with the kickoff of the…
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Vail Resorts Debuts Two Major Employee Initiatives
SAM Magazine—Broomfield, Colo., Dec. 3, 2015—Vail Resorts came out with two major initiatives yesterday, each with the company’s employee base in mind: the EpicPromise…
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Dan Egan Honored by NASJA
SAM Magazine—Campton, N.H., Dec. 3, 2015—Dan Egan, extreme skiing legend and founder of Degan Media, has received the 2016 North American Snowsports Association's (NASJA)…
