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New Products
Cable Ties, manufactured by Panduit Corp., 17301 Ridgeland Ave., Tinley Park, Ill. 60477, can be used to attach tag-type ski lift tickets, according to…
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NSAA Convention & Trade Show Plans
Final plans for the 11th NSAA Convention were late in coming, as Dick Garis and the committees labored to pull together the best, and…
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Speak Out
Re-introducing: SPEAKING OUT That section of SAM called “Speaking Out” has been provocative, constructive and well read over the years. We plan to build…
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Letters
Slander award made In the Spring of 1972 issue of Ski Area Management there was a fairly detailed summary of suit and countersuit between…
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Report
AREA ROUNDUP California enjoys fine season; a great one in southern areas Ski areas in California enjoyed one of their longest seasons in many…
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New Products
Poma urban transport Heron Poma, whose ski lifts are well known to the industry, has released some details on its Poma 2000 system for…
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Food Service
Employee training If you turn the clocks ahead to mid-season, without too much trouble you can probably visualize yourself overseeing a lack of efficiency,…
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NSAA News
The National Ski Areas Association has been growing a pace—about 20 percent annually, according to NSAA executive director Richard Garis. But Garis’s concern, he…
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Letters
Discounting discounts David Rowan’s editorial in the Spring ’72 issue of SAM called for a joint national program between NSAA and USSA, the object…
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Marketing
Meaningful and profitable area promotions can only come from a scientific, detailed approach to planning and implementation. A promotion isn’t a sound investment for…
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In Court
Martha and her family went to the defendant’s ski area one busy day, intending only to enjoy the hospitality of the lodge and watch…
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Technology
Evacuation at Snowbird The second NSAA Lift Evacuation Seminar held at Snowbird, Utah, in September, is a strong indication of the desire of some…
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Speak Out
A Vote for the 1976 Winter Games However inadequate has been the performance of the Denver Olympic Organizing Committee (DOOC) in fulfilling that city’s…
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Report
DEVELOPMENT Christie buys Saddleback, plans expansion John Christie, through his newly formed firm Big Rangely Corp., has purchased the Saddleback Ski Area in Rangely,…
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Speak Out
We’ve all seen it coming. John Q. Skier, that once happy-go-lucky, mountain-loving jock whose only gripe was that the lifts never opened on time,…
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Marketing
Air the message If you or your advertising agency are victims of habit, there’s a good chance that you’ll allocate less than 20 per…
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NSAA News
Sun Valley: A look back The 10th Annual NSAA Convention and Trade Show at Sun Valley, reports Executive Director Dick Garis, was a “great…
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Equipment
Hedco Mark II Hedco’s new totally electric Mark II airless snowmaking machine uses the same “nucleation” principle as the H-2d. At 200 gpm, a…