SAM Coverage
The Editors
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Insurance
In anticipation of the insurance seminar at the NSAA Convention, as well as for the benefit of those who cannot attend, SAM decided to…
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Wunderbar!
Photos Courtesy of Hans Lamprecht, Motor im Schnee Magazine The multi-national trip started in Denver on January 18, when 46 ski area owners and…
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Wire Rope Inspection
In the Fall issue of SAM, we presented some thoughts on the inspection of wire rope by Howard Anderson, Engineering Coordinator of the Western…
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Newspapers
With all the current emphasis on reaching non-skiers and getting them to take up the sport, newspapers are an obviously powerful medium for doing…
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Grooming
Over the last 40 years, Mont Tremblant has always been interested in grooming trails so that the surface would be in the best possible…
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What A Snowmaking Year
Ed Note: If ever there was a year for snowmaking to be center stage and show its stuff, 1976-77 was it! In the East,…
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Grips
Coming to grips with GRIPS — The start of a continuing study of grip technology, including Part One of an inventory of grips still…
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Rumbling And Sliding
Easily the most talked-about summer marketing device is the slide. There are two systems being marketed which are quite different in design, but which…
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Cover Story– Fire
The lift operators arrived in time to complete their usual pre-operational checks at the base station of a top-drive gondola. As usual, everything was…
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Media-Newspapers
With all the current emphasis on reaching non-skiers and getting them to take up the sport, newspapers are an obviously powerful medium for doing…
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Glendinning Report
“Ski Industry Pilot Study and Recommended Marketing Effort” by Glendinning Associates It’s time we all put this matter of skier market growth into proper…
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Coke Puts On Skis
The Coca Cola program that was proposed to the NSAA membership in August is now a reality. Area response was strongly positive, as indeed…
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The Snow Makers
The biggest equipment news is bound to be in the field of snowmaking. The dreadful realities of what can happen in the east has…
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Q & A On Grooming
Q. On slope grooming Over the past three years, the ski industry has witnessed the rapid growth of G.L.M. Rental and retail shops had…
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Planning Your Way Through Expansion
Construction efficiency at Copper Mountain in Frisco, Colorado, is probably the virtuoso act of the ski industry. It took just 13 months of construction…
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1973-74– A Season Of Extremes
This past year saw all sorts of records set, from all-time highs in snow accumulation in the northwest, to all-time lows in about anything…
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The Eastern Gyro Behind The Jolly Green
You’d hardly think that a kid reared in West Hartford, Conn., schooled in the Midwest flatlands and strapped to skis for the first time…
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NSAA Mid-Winter Agenda
Test-tracking at Snowbird This month’s Slope Maintenance Conference at Snowbird, Utah, will take on a different—and more practical—format than in years past. Gone this…