SAM Coverage
Grooming
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Over-Snow Vehicles
The story of over-snow vehicles and their use at ski areas might start with the end of World War II when surplus army tracked…
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Grooming
Over the last 40 years, Mont Tremblant has always been interested in grooming trails so that the surface would be in the best possible…
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Night-Time Cats Of Steamboat
When a skier’s day is over at Steamboat, the maintenance crew’s day has just begun. They’re the night cats of the mountain. The deciding…
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Fertilize Your Snow
Until it runs off the mountain as water, snow is constantly changing. Since we use the term “snow farming” to describe maintenance of snow,…
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Slope Grooming Gets New Look
Sun Valley’s Broadway Face has a circumference of 60 to 70 acres. Its overgrowth of 10-foot trees, with base diameters of three to five…
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Q & A On Grooming
Q. On slope grooming Over the past three years, the ski industry has witnessed the rapid growth of G.L.M. Rental and retail shops had…
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Snowbird Preview
And you thought hydrostatics was only a fancy term tossed around in college physics classes . . . If you’re on hand for the…
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Tooling Up Your Grooming
Unquestionably, grooming helped make the ski season possible last year. The East and the Midwest had sparse snowfalls mixed with rain and the Rockies…
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The Wizard Of Winter Park
Winter Park is 30 years old this Winter, and Steve Bradley has been manager for 20 of those years. The resort has become the…
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Steep Slopes Under Fire
Much time is spent mowing tall grass on ski slopes every fall. Mowing is not necessary to keep the grass healthy, but it is…