SAM Coverage
David Rowan
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Lifts 2004-An Overdue Rebound
It was a busy summer as resorts across North America gave themselves a little boost in uphill capacity. While not a record, it was…
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Lifts 2003-We’ve Leveled Off…Down There
What does one say about a lift-building year that is not exactly, er, uplifting? I guess you just supply the facts and leave the…
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Book Review: The Snow Summit Story 1952-2002
**The Snow Summit Story—1952-2002**, by Richard Kun. 68 pages, heavily illustrated with vintage photos. Foreward by Doug Pfeiffer, who helped in the editing. Available…
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Publisher’s Memo
The function of SAM’s Publisher’s Memo is usually to shine a spotlight on special content in the issue. Sometimes that spotlight is on someone…
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Lifts 2002 — Not One for the Record Books
Let’s face it, there were few who expected this to be a great lift-building year. And it wasn’t. In fact, it was the smallest…
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Tilting at Skihills
First off, I apologize to the reader for rehashing stuff I have written before in these pages. Trouble is, old myths about our business…
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And Then There Were Two
The North American ski world is having to come to grips with the implications of a shrunken marketplace, as measured in product choices, now…
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Lifts 2001-Down, But With Some Bright Spots
What do you say about a lift construction year like 2001? Do you make happy by focusing on the one bright spot, the East,…
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A Modest Proposal for Our Statistical Disarray
I prefer not to remember the number of times this magazine has spelled out our industry’s short-sightedness in failing to develop useable numbers for…
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Way Back When in SAM
The big news in the ski world revolves around the Haskell Hearings in Washington. Colorado’s Democratic Senator, Floyd Haskell, had it in his head…
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Are We Still in the Same Business?
I admit I was tempted. It seemed to have a lot of very desirable features. I mean, if you read this real estate ad,…
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World Ropeways
The Germans have always loved order; they like precision, lists of things, the systematic history of things—not, it seems to me, always for their…
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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 relief! All…
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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 reasons we…
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We Remember Two Friends
John Jay—It is hard to evaluate the contributions to the sport of skiing that Jay made. He harnessed a brilliant mind, a love of…
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A Ramble in Ski Statistics
Perhaps you’ve heard the old one about how, more than 60 years ago, skier statistics got started down the slippery slope they have been…
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2000 Lifts: An Average Year, but with Highlights
New lift totals for the shiny new millennium (yeah, in case you’ve forgotten, the true start of the millennium is 2001) show a truly…
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Brian Fairbank: On a Mission to Convert
Fifty-four-year-old Brian Fairbank, the human dynamo at the helm of Jiminy Peak and Brodie Mountain in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, who is also…