SAM Coverage
Olivia Rowan
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Defusing Development
A master of win-win negotiating reveals his secrets and suggests ways to break the costly deadlocks that delay and fragment the ski area planning…
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Aspen’s Crown– The Silver Queen
The six-passenger Pomagondola not only moves people faster, it changes the way they ski the mountain and gives the resort a new image.
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World’s First 8-Seater
The new speedy Doppelmayr gondola at Steamboat has reduced lines and relieved congestion on the lower mountain. It also operates in very high winds.
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Detachable Quad At June
Lift Engineering solved a problem and built a skier-friendly lift in process. It makes a strong statement of design philosophy: understatement.
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Beach Front Planning/Slope Development
The effective circulation of skiers and cars is the key to using land profitably in creating effective circulation of skiers and cars is the…
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Cogeneration– Using Power To Cut Costs
The selection of the correct equiptment is at the core to making effective use of heat from engines. At Snowbird, they put it together…
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The Great Gastronomy Gap
Some skier-chefs express their opinions on ski area food and provide tips for improving the product. And, then they, raced for the fun of…
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A Real Real Estate Tale
The idea of a condo-level hotel seemed viable on paper, so Ski Windham’s management proceeded with plans. Then, they looked before they leaped…and they…
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The Key Is To Improve The Product
NSAA’s new chairman, Channing Murdock, maintains providing better skiing is the way to promote growth.
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Mountain Upgrade
Lift replacement in a mountain upgrade can be modeled to study impacts of different uphill configurations.
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Impacts Of Detachables
New methods of predicting density problems on mountains are needed with high capacity lifts.
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Spirit Mountain Goes Detachable
Why a detachable in mid-America? SAM takes a technical look at a new Borvig/leitner bubble quad.
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Understand People, Be Willing To Listen
Employees can contribute to volume business-at least that’s the philosophy of Mammoth Mountain’s Dave McCoy.
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The Good News Is, It’s Getting Colder
Aside from forecasting the weather, this climatologist says changes indicate a cooling trend.