SAM Coverage
Paul Robbins
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Pressure On New England Real Estate Market
June 23: Forest Ridge, a condo complex across from Loon Mountain at the southern edge of New Hampshire’s White Mountain, holds a foreclosure auction…
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Lift Contract Award–Controversy-Sunapee
An interesting beat-the-clock scenario is unfolding at New Hampshire’s state-owned Mount Sunapee Ski Area, where Riblet Tramway Co. of Spokane, WA, is racing to…
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The Vermonters Are Restless
If Vermont gets a head cold, will the rest of the ski industry start running a fever? Well, maybe it’s time to check the…
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Saga Of Roundtop
If snow flakes flew like the charges and counter charges at Round Top Ski Area in Vermont during the last couple of months, there…
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Timesharing Condos
Timesharing seems to be a real estate creature whose—you should pardon the expression—time has come for the ski industry. The concept, under which multiple…
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Butternut Basin
When you have neither the mountains nor the snowmaking, the slopeside lodging nor the sizzling apres ski scene of a Killington or Sugarbush, yet…
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Bunny Bertram
1908 – 1981 (Editor’s note. Wallace “Bunny” Bertram, one of the six newest members of the National Ski Hall of Fame, died Jan. 29,…
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The Consumer Ski Shows
Quo vadis consumer ski show? Are they an endangered species? Ski area operators, despite their concern with the environment, may not be too concerned…
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Caring For Kids
It didn’t take Fred Pabst long after he opened Bromley in 1937 to realize some sort of slopeside facilities for children would free mom…
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The Locals Win
Vermonters, by nature, generally play their cards pretty close to their vest. They’re usually not given to loud guffaws and back-slapping, nor other signs…
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The Junkman Cometh
Hugh Knapp had the perfect idea, he figured. He’d become a one-man bulletin board, message center and brokerage house for used ski area equipment…