SAM Coverage
Olivia Rowan
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Private Cross Country On Public Land
Skiers in a Wisconsin community wanted trails for skiing. The largest local landowner-the county-was happy to accommodate in creating a homegrown facility.
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Up And Over
At Stevens Pass they regarded the project as just another lift; to the CTEC engineers it was one heck of a place to put…
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A Three-For-One-Split
One double lift became two triples and a double plus a new beginner’s area at Willamette Pass, resulting in a Riblet success story.
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The Greening Of The Trail
Even the most recalcitrant soil responds to microbial biomass that turns brown to green in a matter of weeks. A new way to revegetate…
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Snow Gun Performance Testing
Continuing the Snowmaking Workshop series, this method of testing guns can help in buying and working decisions.
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Roles For Chart Recorders
Lift performance can be monitored and documented more efficiently and accurately using these well-tried instruments.
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Making Tillers For Touring
At Mt. Washington, B.C. they converted and adapted to make the best-ever cross country track setters.
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New Zealand– Familiar And Strange
The similarities are so striking that one feels at home at resorts on the other side of the globe-untill you notice the differences.
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Lifts 1987– The East Pours It On
The surge in lift building set a record or two and missed several by a whisker or two. Overall, it was another great year.
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Night Crew Burn-Out
The stresses of night work can be extreme; when combined with weather hazzards, the results can be very damaging.
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Canada– Skiing As A National Policy
A cooperative approach between many entitles is used successfully promote the sport. An overview by David Rowan.
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Mount Allan – Planned By Computer
The 1998 Winter Olympics will be hield on slopes that were created in a new way. Paul Mathews explains how and hwy it was…
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Can You Clone Gray Rocks?
A perennial success, a star in the ski resort galaxy and the mountain is all of 600 feet high. The secret revealed by Janet…
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Scale Model Snow Control
The effects of slope modification can be seen in dramatic thtree dimensions with this new technique, according to brian Hayter.
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Good Mountain, Poor Snow
Lack of snow had Bromont’s management stymied, but massive snowmaking and clever marketing produced a big turnaround. By Guy Thibaudeau.
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Moving Snow By Chopper
The idea seems like overkill until you minimize the variables. Then patching makes sense according to Jim Buckingham.