SAM Coverage
The Editors
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Industry Reports
ASC Merges with Meristar In early December, American Skiing Company (ASC) and MeriStar Hotels& Resorts, the nation’s largest independent hotel management company, signed an…
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Charles Beebe-A True Pioneer
Charlie Beebe was an original—determined, colorful opinionated and totally dedicated to the growth of skiing. He started his Temple Mountain Ski Area in New…
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Cuck Lewis-Remembering a Leader
Chuck Lewis seemed so strong, so indestructible. It is hard to come to grips with the death of this remarkable industry leader. No single…
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Blue Pages
Criminal Charges in Skiing Death? On April 10, the Colorado Supreme Court moved into uncharted waters when it ruled on a 1997 case in…
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Construction Site
Brodie Mountain The first thing Joe O’Donnell and I did after we purchased Brodie Mountain Ski Resort, Mass., in November, 1999, was to evaluate…
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Industry Reports
Gillett Steps Down and Takes Targhee with Him In the span of a week, George N. Gillett, Jr, chairman of Booth Creek Ski Holdings,…
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Blue Pages
Seeing Double at Sun Valley Talk about brand enhancement! No ski resort has more powerful brand identity than Sun Valley, the storied ski shrine…
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Industry Reports–various headlines
The Numbers Game Second quarter/mid-season results were all over the board for ski areas with records set in the plus and minus columns. Colorado…
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The Good and the Ugly: Two Sides of the Same Circumstances
Below, the reader will find two extraordinary open letters, one from U.S. Ski Team President Bill Marolt and the other from Dave Barry, COO…
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Blue Pages
Weather: El Niños, La Niñas, Los Awful The start to our season was a cruel one. Of course, we should know better than to…
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Industry Reports
Disabled Athletes Meet with USSA Several athletes of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team, who decided to fight their ouster from the United States Ski…
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Tacky, Tacky, Tacky
The cheering crowds are gathered around the finish line…the TV cameras record the speeding skier as he heads over the final roll and down…
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A Savvy Environmental Response
It is a gastropod the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen; it has genital pores and anus on the right side of…
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Thanks, Chris; Greetings, Gary
NSAA heads into the next two years with a new team at the top, headed by incoming chairman, Gary McCoy, of Mammoth Mountain, Calif.,…
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NSAA Domestic And International Marketing
NSAA Domestic Marketing Action plans to be offered to membership A few years ago, in the waning days of the “old” NSAA and in…
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New Products
Weather station MesoTech introduces the TFV 4065 weather station with no moving parts. According to the designers, the station is not affected by snow…
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Score One For A Golf Developer
The following story on enviromental opposition is reprinted from the Golf Business Green Sheet of the Golf Development Institute, Ignacio, California. PURCHASE, NY —…
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NSAA’s New Leader
In a line of succession that dates from its founding in 1962, Gary McCoy, of Mammoth Mountain, Calif., is slated to become the 15th…