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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…
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Report
For this issue we asked our regional editors to get a feeling for how the season might shape up based on advanced reservations, and…
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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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Speak Out
By now, everyone in the ski area industry knows about the hearings that Colorado Senator Floyd Haskell is holding. And everyone is more than…
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Report
The final figures are not in, but there is no denying that 1975 will represent some sort of record for standing still by the…
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New Products
Cones For Snowmaking A new protective shield for snowmaking air and water hydrants has been announced by Thomas L. Thompson, president of Thompson Cone…
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Two Years of Job Skills
The skills that a new employee provides a ski area from the first day are probably more important in the present far-from-rosy economic climate…