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Time for FIS Freeskiing By Mike Jaquet, Publisher, Freeze Magazine This past summer, during annual strategy meetings in Slovenia, the International Ski Federation (FIS)…
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1924 Pete Seibert 2002: An Appreciation by Robert W. Parker By that day in the autumn of 1959, when he walked into my office…
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A Big Round of Applause By the SAM Staff Like most of the nation, we at SAM sat glued to our TVs every night…
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Snowshoeing/XC Debate
By Jonathan Wiesel, Principal, Nordic Group International Back in the optimistic 1960s when I was a history grad student, we were told it’s possible…
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Finally, Some common sense in Season Pass Pricing
By Bob Gillen, Publisher, The Snow Industry Letter It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop and it finally did. A number…
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Letters: Snow Monsters
Snow Monsters Sir: There have been several attempts at an industry-wide marketing campaign to sell skiing and boarding to the public. Our small ski…
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Seth Says: E-Commerce going local. Right Now.
Do you remember Sidney Stratton? In the 1952 Ealing Studios comedy “The Man in the White Suit,” chemist Sidney Stratton, played by Alec Guiness,…
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Snowboarding Has Its Dangers, Too
Three Medi-Vac rescues in one month (two in two days) with only 300 snowboarders in their second year on the mountain. A total disaster!…
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Dispelling Myths About the Great Shrinkage of Ski Areas
The implications of consolidation in the ski area industry are being debated and readers of this issue will find plenty to ponder in three…