Three ideas are presented, including: chair loading guides for summer guests; handy APU directions attached to the auxiliary engine on a laminated card; and a simple stop gate for off-ramps to prevent bent gates and replacing spring-loaded gates.

This article looks at what resorts are doing to attract business during the summer season, The article discusses everything from BMX events to waterslides and from symphony concerts to paint ball from coast to coast.

SIA Attempts to Force Trade Show Agreement; Ski Maine Hosts Fifth-Grade Passport Confab; Field of Bidders Narrows for Cannon, Mt. SUnapee; Resorts Gear Up for a Lift-Building Summer; Linde Named NSAA Director of Marketing; New Name, New Bucks to Transform N.J. Resort; Obits, People and Personnel; Restructuring and Relocation of Kassbohrer; Supplier News.

An interview with Mason Dwinell, the 27-year-old Vermonter who purchased Bolton Valley, Vt., out of bankruptcy last summer.

A firsthand account of how Mountain High Resort, Calif., ended a hectic summer by enduring a catastrophic forest fire.

Building lifts by hand, adding vertical to mountaintops and scaling cliffs in amusement parks were just a few of the construction accomplishments this summer at Snowmass, Colo.; Shanty Creek, Mich.; Kirkwood, Calif.; Snow Valley, Ontario; Lake Compounce, Conn.; Snowbird, Utah and Steamboat, Colo.

Big bucks and big earth-moving projects are in the works this summer. Projects featured include: Snow Valley, Calif.; Holiday Valley, N.Y.; Jackson Hole, Wyo.; Mammoth Mountain, Calif.; Chestnut Mountain, Ill.; Camelback, Penn.

Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in western Pennsylvania was already rated one of the top ten spas in the country, offering a wide range of spring, summer and fall activities. When they wanted to expand into winter activities, what was more logical than skiing?

An undergraduate describes his summer internship at Sno-engineering, and suggests that internships benefit ski industry employers and interns equally.

Tom Moriarty of Stratton, Vt., gets the groomer out of the garage in the summer by adding modifications which allow it to mow grass as well.