SAM Coverage
The Editors
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Blue Pages :: January 2017
Perspective and Views Just Hanging OutIn late November, a Pittsfield, Vt., woman who was stranded in a gondola cabin at Killington for five hours…
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Trailblazers :: Eric & Sarah Cylvick
Zipline line builders and pioneers, brake system Inventors. From the beginning, Eric and Sarah Cylvick have been pioneers in the adventure zip line business.…
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Blue Pages :: November 2016
QUESTIONS (AND ANSWERS) ABOUT LIFT SAFETY… VAIL RESORTS: HOW BIG CAN IT BECOME?… WARREN MILLER: THE FREEDOM OF SKIING… JAY LOOKS AHEAD DESPITE EB-5…
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Blue Pages :: September 2016
VAIL’S WHISTLER DEAL HAS GLOBAL IMPACTS… THIS TRAIL GOES RIGHT AND LEFT… READY FOR A POSSIBLY SNOWY WINTER?; WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER… RED…
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Industry Reports :: September 2016
Vail Buys Whistler Blackcomb, New Life for Canada’s Mt. Baldy, and more VAIL RESORTS TO BUY WHISTLER BLACKCOMB On August 8, Vail Resorts bought…
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The Future Is Now
Millennials expound on their generation, goals, and ideas about change. With every passing day, the Millennial generation becomes more the here-and-now rather than the…
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10 Ideas for Summer Operations
Other-season opportunities have their own unique demands and challenges. Here’s a look at 10 ideas, cherry-picked from SAM’s sister publication. Summer remains a…
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Best/Worst Marketing 2015-16
SAM’s annual review of marketing hits and misses. In a season during which prolific snow was falling out West before most in the…
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Industry Reports May 2016
WILMOT’S $13 MILLION OVERHAUL… WHISTLER BLACKCOMB RENAISSANCE… KILLINGTON INVESTING IN SUMMER… PEOPLE… AWARDS… OBITUARIES… SUPPLIER NEWS WILMOT’S $13 MILLION OVERHAUL After more than 75…
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Blue Pages :: May 2016
JAY AND BURKE: GOOD INTENTIONS GONE BAD When Jay Peak, Vt., owner Bill Stenger championed the EB-5 foreign investor program as a way to…
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SIA Snow Show: Editor’s Picks
The 2016 SIA Snow Show in Denver Jan. 28-31 showcased the usual overwhelming number of products and brands. SAM searched the show halls and…
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Publisher’s Memo – March 2016
Cyber Hacking, Active Shooters, and Unions, Oh My! As one operator said at the recent NSAA winter shows, after attending sessions on unions, ADA…
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On the Road – March 2016
Faces and Places… NSAA WEST, SQUAW CREEK, CA, JANUARY 19-21 The NSAA western conference and trade show gathered a total of 660…
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Industry Reports – March 2016
MT. ROSE FOR SALE In late January, after 45 years as majority owner, Fritz Buser, 95, put Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe up for sale.…
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Trailblazer :: Claire Humber, Resort Planner
Third in a series on individuals who have had a significant impact on developing the North American mountain resort industry. SAM: What was the…
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Blue Pages – March 2016
SUMMER BUSINESS: A SHARED EXPERIENCE The Assembly, conceived and run by Denver-based DestiMetrics, has quickly become a staple of the annual mountain tourism seminar…
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Trust the Process
After working together for 16 years, Greg Goddard and Claire Humber have forged a productive and fun working relationship. In 1999, Goddard, general manager…
