SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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Sugarbush Pioneers Large-Scale AC Drive
Sugarbush Resort in Warren, Vermont, will have a new top-drive Poma detachable quad up and running this season at its Mount Ellen area. What…
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Construction Site
Hoodoo, Oregon Three years ago, new owner Chuck Shepard set out to double Hoodoo’s skier and rider visits. He began advertising and promoting heavily,…
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The Inspector’s Role in Ropeway Safety
Excerpted from a presentation at the OITAF-NACS Symposium, Alyeska, Alaska, September 2002. Each year, public transport ropeways in the U.S. and Canada are required…
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Construction Site
Pine Creek When the locally run Pine Creek Ski Area in Lincoln County, Wyoming, bought a fixed-grip quad, the folks from Doppelmayr/CTEC were shocked.…
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SAM Idea Files
The following ideas all come from Hunter Mountain, N.Y. Idea #1: Inflating Tires Because many detachable lifts have pneumatic tires on the contours at…
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Making an Old Lift New Again
Angel Fire Ski Area in New Mexico had a big problem: We were tired of trying to satisfy our beginning and novice customers’ varying,…
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Construction Site
Mt. Baker Management at Mt. Baker, Wash., recently began a four-year upgrade plan to convert all remaining six double lifts to fixed-grip quads. The…
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And Then There Were Two
The North American ski world is having to come to grips with the implications of a shrunken marketplace, as measured in product choices, now…
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Lifts 2001-Down, But With Some Bright Spots
What do you say about a lift construction year like 2001? Do you make happy by focusing on the one bright spot, the East,…
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Applying VF Drives at Ski Areas
This is a companion article to “New Life for Old Lifts” from the July, 2001 SAM and answers additional questions related to using variable-frequency…