SAM Coverage
Nils Ericksen
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Know Your Capacity
How much lift capacity are you losing to inefficiency? It’s easy to find out. What’s your area’s lift capacity? Many resorts tout the…
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Success by Design
Last summer Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire, wanted to make its beginner terrain more user-friendly. It shaved five feet off the top of the slope,…
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Not to Me!
Some years ago, I nearly killed myself in an industrial accident. It was March, and there was still a lot of snow on the…
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SAM Idea Files
The following ideas all come from Hunter Mountain, N.Y. Idea #1: Inflating Tires Because many detachable lifts have pneumatic tires on the contours at…
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Grooming Vehicles 2002
If no news is good news, this is the best year ever for groomers. For the first time since we began our annual Vehicle…
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Grooming Vehicles 2001
Groomers, take heart. There’s more of everything coming: engines with more power, tracks with more options, blades with more motion and a new player…
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Turnaround: Pisten Bully versus Lift Tower
What happens to a ski lift tower when a 1,400-pound groomer hits it head on? Answer: Plenty. At Brodie Mountain Ski Resort, Mass., this…
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Grooming Vehicles 2000
Park groomers are the hot vehicle for the upcoming ski season with both Kassbohrer’s Pisten Bully and Bombardier making a play for a share…
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Grooming Vehicles 1998
In the 20 years since SAM‘s first “Over-Snow Vehicles” review appeared (Spring 1979), snow groomer designs have undergone exciting—and expensive—evolutionary changes. That first article…
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If You Build It, They Will Come
In many ways, the history of the ski industry is the history of ski lifts and vice-versa. Indeed, dates, such as the first documented…
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Belt Transmissions
In the first article on “Lift Basics,” (January 1992 SAM on gear ratios) I promised to explain the basics of belt drives and how…
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1994 Vehicle Roundup
This has been a very exciting season for over-the-snow vehicles, their dealers and especially for those of you fortunate enough to get some seat…
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1985-86 Snowmaking Machinery Round-Up
Last year, SAM published the first Snow-Making Machinery Roundup as a continuation of our commitment to objectively clarify one aspect of the interesting and…
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1985 Roundup Of Over-Snow Vehicles
Vehicles are looking better all the time. Have you purchased a Class III Vehicle lately? Or, how about a Class I or Class IV?…
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Ropeway Experts Convene
Last year’s highly successful gathering of ropeway experts at Snowbird, UT. was given an encore in September at Sunshine Village, Alberta, with Sunshine’s John…
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Snowmaking
After 30 years of snowmaking, where are we now, technologically speaking—remembering that technology can only move as fast as it is accepted by the…
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Vehicle Round-Up
Every year sees the industry crossing new thresholds in over-snow vehicles—thresholds of engineering sophistication and design, to say nothing of price. We’re now into…
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Ultrasonic Testing
HellOOOO . . . Helloooo, Hellooo, Helloo. This familiar “sonic” echo has been conducted by most of us at one time or other. Being…