SAM Coverage
David Rowan
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The Cosmopolitan Future of America’s Ski Resorts
While the industry cranks up its multi-million dollar effort to “grow the sport” in the national market place, a less heralded effort in the…
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Keystone’s Avant Garde Gondola
The Keystone Resort in Colorado, owned by the Ralston Purina Company, would seem an unlikely site for a lift system as avant-garde and innovative…
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Hall Ski-Lift Co
This season, skiers from California to Maine will be riding on 19 new chairlifts carrying the name Hall. Two are quads, eight are triples…
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Ski Area Management Issues
One of the more interesting—perhaps charming—attributes associated with all of us in the ski world is that we rarely do things by halves. Far…
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Tweedledum & Tweeledee Contest
In the Winter ’79 issue of SAM I wrote an opinion piece entitled, “Some rude thoughts on ski movies.” It complained about the “godawful…
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The Great Numbers Game
In medieval times, one of the great questions — endlessly debated by theologians, scholars, philosophers and clerics — was how many angels could dance…
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Washington Report
I had been to the White House before — as a tourist. But now I was going as an invited member of the press…
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Issues
Have you ever gone up to a lady who has a small child in tow and said, “Lady, that’s probably the homeliest little girl…
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Issues and Update on Energy
Sunday v Stratton …an update and an idea These are nervous days for the ski industry as we watch the after-shocks of the now…
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Issues
The award was staggering: $1.5 million. To underscore their verdict, the jury even tacked on a cool quarter million more than the plaintiff had…
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Issues
The model legislation program One of the basic approaches being taken by NSAA in its pursuit of legislative relief for ski areas from the…
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Crossroads For Freestyle
If you were to enter today’s freestyle scene prepared to take everything at face value—as I did—you would enter an Alice-in-Wonderland world where everything…
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Speak Out
Anniversaries are not in themselves important; they merely mark the passage of time. But, as such, they are useful as benchmarks for the recording…