SAM Coverage
SAM staff report
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Blue Pages
Vail Battles an Ugly Perception A byproduct of the outrageous arson Vail suffered is the bad press it received, centered around a perception—justified or…
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Industry Reports
Vail Facilities Savaged in Arson Attack; Earth Liberation Group Claims Credit Arsonists struck in the early hours of October 19 on Vail Mountain. The…
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A Wrap-up of the 13th Interalpin
— From October 10 to 12, 1998, approximately 13,500 visitors from 41 countries cruised the aisles of the 13th Interalpin trade show in Innsbruck,…
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Snow Monsters Join NSAA
Do you really mean to say you don’t know that moguls are made by Mogul Gophers, who live wherever there’s snow and whose purpose…
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Blue Pages
Who’s Buying? Who’s Selling? George Gillett’s Booth Creek Ski Group was the successful bidder on the high-volume, profitable Seven Springs Resort in western Pennsylvania.…
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Blue Pages
The Les, George and Adam $57 Mil. Challenge On Page 15 of this issue is an ad quite unlike any other we have run…
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Ski Patrol and Area Management: A Dilemma Still Seeking a Solution
Background—(Quoted from Fall 1997 issue, Ski Patrol Magazine) “On August 6, a Southern California judge awarded $1.4 million in damages to a plaintiff who…
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1997 Lifts: Big Surge in New VTFH
By any standards it has been an amazing lift year—if not record-breaking, certainly the strongest in a decade and a powerful confirmation of recent…
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Industry Loses Three Greats
Charles “Chic” Morton, 80—Chic Morton started his 50-year association with Alta, Utah, with a bartending job at Alta Lodge, which led in turn to…
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Snowmobile Innovations
Snowmobiles are essential vehicles at most ski areas. Here are two inventions to make them work better: One, a new brake system, which will…
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Conference, California Style
Ski season was over, but from May 13-15, Heavenly Ski Resort in California was hopping. Attendees at the annual California Ski Industry Association (CSIA)…
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NSAA Celebrates at 35
They came in near-record numbers—over 1,300 strong—to participate in NSAA’s 35th Birthday Convention at the Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colo., the site of its organizational…
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Technology in the Works
I—Detachable Double for Ruthie’s at Aspen Ruthie’s is very special to generations of Aspen skiers—Ruthie’s Run, that is, and so it has been for…
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The Shaping of Industry Marketing
The ski area industry—a term that may soon be obsolete if we reconstitute ourselves as the mountain resort industry, or some such—is at a…