SAM Coverage
David Rowan
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Lifts 2002 — Not One for the Record Books
It’s no surprise that lift installations were down last year. However, the growing trends in tubing and beginner areas remain strong. CLICK HERE…
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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…
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ANSI B77 is 40: A BRief History
June 8 is the 40th anniversary of the approval of what was then called the USA Standard Safety Code for Aerial Passenger Tramways, B77.1-1960.…
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What Snow is Not
After 50 years of writing and editing, I feel I have some knowledge of words and their usages. But those usages are morphing at…
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1999 Lifts–A Modest Downturn
Millennial hopes and hypes notwithstanding, 1999 was no record-breaker. True, the statistic for total new lifts in North America was essentially unchanged from last…
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Sending Right Messages- A Futuristic Look.
by David Rowan The scene is 1996 on a sunny, mid-winter Saturday at Mt. Terrific, U.S.A., where 3,500 recreationalists are having a ball in…
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NSAA Reborn With An Upbeat Mood And A New Look
National Ski Areas Association came back together, May 3-6, for its convention in San Diego, its identity reconfirmed, its collective shirt busting its buttons…
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Lifts 1992
No surprises, but oh, what a bummer of a year for new lift construction! The 36 new lifts represent the lowest total since SAM…
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NSAA Starts Anew In Lakewood, Colorado
The “new” National Ski Areas Association is going to look very much like the old one in form, structure and program. This is the…