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New Products
A low-cost, light-weight magnetic wire rope tester is available through Lift Consultants, 1355 Joliet Place, Detroit, MI 48207.
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Report
Although Sierra ski resorts are coming off the worst snow year in their history, most of them are financially healthy, and at least four…
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Public Funds and the Private Sector
Gore, Whiteface, Sunapee and the Pennsylvania Gas and Water Co. have a common bond: Plans that have provoked anger and dismay as well as…
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New Products
After two winters of testing, Valley Engineering, of Gray, Maine, has introduced a blade that is designed to cut and redistribute “boiler-plate.”
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NSAA Newsletter
Support U.S. ski teams For the 1976-1977 season, 125 transferable passes will be sold nationally at $1,500 each. Participating areas will honor the pass…
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Report
On June 5, the Forest Service report on the gondola accident in Vail was released and the press picked it up with headlines such…
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Issues
As a result of three days of hearings last fall in Colorado and Washington and six more this spring in Washington, I have proposed…
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Speak Out
Congratulations are in order for the excellent trade show and convention this May at the Broadmoor.
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Speak Out
With the NSAA convention returning to the Broadmoor we must briefly reminisce, because it was there, just 14 years ago that NSAA and this…
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New Products
In response to the new B-77 ANSI requirements, effective with the 1976-77 season, that there be “periodic testing and adjustment of the holding power…
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Report
Expansion plans for the 1976-77 season are the biggest in years, with the emphasis on lift construction and snowmaking, rather than housing. Financing may…
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Idea File
Editor’s note: this is another edition of Nils Ericksen’s Idea File. Its success depends on you, our readers, sharing your ideas with us. Just…
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Issues
We hereby inaugurate a new feature in SAM: Issues. In it we intend to address those issues that are current and of concern to…
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NSAA Newsletter
It gives me great pleasure to welcome the members of the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Ski Areas Association. In a setting as…
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Speak Out
One of the penalties of writing opinion is that one will not have the command of language to make oneself understood. (Naturally, we couldn’t…