SAM Coverage
The Editors
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Clean Up Our Act And Clean Out The Stables
In a survey conducted by New England Ski Areas Council (NESAC) this past fall at some consumer ski shows, respondents were asked about the…
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Investor Group Buys Lmc
The purchase by an investor group of Logan Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of LMC snow grooming vehicles and associated implements, was announced in early January,…
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Quality Counts At Risk
We’ll go right to the point: the Quality Counts program our industry is trying to get off the launching pad is important. At a…
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Reach Out And Touch At&T
Reach out and touch AT&T Warning: You will probably find this a mean-spirited editorial. So be it. There is a need to purge a…
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The Important, But Difficult, Future Of Usia
Face it, the fate of our industry association hangs in the balance, its survivability in question. It is not negative or disloyal to point…
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Convention ’92
Riddle: What is 118 hours long but fits into a 36-hour time slot? Answer: the 32 information-packed seminars, workshops, panel sessions and presentations and…
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Quality Assurance Program
In the face of ever-increasing competition for the leisure time and discretionary dollars of recreating Americans, the need to provide a consistent, and consistently…
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Landmark Legislation Introduced
A package of remarkable bills was introduced in Congress in April, including HR 4970 and HR 4971 in the House and S 2606 in…
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Usia- Unfulfilled And In Need Of Something
USIA — Unfulfilled And In Need of Something! Not everyone in the industry remembers, but this is the year when United Ski Industries Association…
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Is Ski Equipment A Barrier To Market Growth?- Six Lively Opinions.
In the January issue I wrote an editorial entitled, “Ski Equipment: Barrier to Market Growth?” In it I expressed the opinion that ski equipment…
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Spring Showcase Of New Products
Gilman’s “postless posts” Gilman Corporation’s risk management line now offers posts to attach netting, fencing and signs that need no padding, since they themselves…
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How Many Skiers Are There Anyway?
In the July 1991 issue of SAM we ran an Issues piece by Jim Spring, partner in the research service of Leisure Trends/Gallup (LT/G),…
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Lifts 1989
Well, let’s face it, 1989 did not set records in lift construction in North America. Having said that, the flip side must also be…
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Real Estate And Skiing
Chuck Lewis is known in the ski area industry as the possessor of one of the sharpest financial minds around. He was associated with…
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Lifts 1978
No matter how you slice it, 1978 has been a big year in new lift construction, and although this index is not ideal as…
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Safety Through Ski Schools
Heavenly Valley in California is very safety-conscious, and tries to make this a matter of area-wide awareness. Safety education is specially intense in the…
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Issues
Automatic application of emergency brakes One of the hottest topics this summer has been a provision of the addendum to the ANSI B77.1A standards…
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NSAA Newsletter
The Future of Skiing Several years of court action has prevented Disney from developing skiing facilities at Mineral King, Calif. Developers of Ski Yellowstone…