SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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A Gondola For The 1980s
Sunshine Village, in Alberta’s Banff National Park, has taken a giant step toward its goal of doubling capacity to 6,600 skiers/day by 1982 with…
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Issues
Automatic application of emergency brakes One of the hottest topics this summer has been a provision of the addendum to the ANSI B77.1A standards…
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Lift Crew Training
In the last issue of Ski Area Management I described some considerations and planning tools you can use to develop a ski lift operator…
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Load Testing
The Ski Area Management Winter 1975 issue contained a frequently-referenced article on post-construction load testing of aerial lift facilities. It enumerated prerequisites of load…
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Lift Crew Training
The airline industry learned long ago that they needed a sophisticated staff to care for their aircraft. The airlines also found that to operate…
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Jumbo Chairs
For Stadeli-Lift, headquartered just outside Zurich, Switzerland, there had been endless preparatory work with the appropriate Transport Office in Berne before getting the necessary…
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Chair Grip Update
Since the first article on chair grips appeared in the Spring 1977 issue of SAM, I am pleased to report that I have received…
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Lifts 1977
As an index of industry health and growth, new lift construction has its limitations. For instance, a great deal of the lift work being…
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Changing Times
Remember the good old days? No environmentalists screaming at you; no mounds of environmental impact reports when you wanted to expand your parking lot…
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Your Chairlift Purchase
Buying a chairlift, like other major purchases, means making decisions. As the magnitude of the purchase increases, buyers tend to build up fear that…