SAM Coverage
Mountain Ops
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SAM Idea Files
Idea #1: Double Insurance When a power outage hits a ski resort, nothing feels worse than switching to auxiliary power and finding that a…
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Construction Site
Park City To prepare for the 2002 Winter Olympics, the staff at Park City Mountain Resort, Utah, was charged with the tasks of constructing…
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A Ramble in Ski Statistics
Perhaps you’ve heard the old one about how, more than 60 years ago, skier statistics got started down the slippery slope they have been…
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MVP: A Lifetime of Service
With corporate mergers, down-sizing, head hunters and salary jumpers, longevity and commitment are as extinct as black and white televisions. But, not at American…
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Are Your Downloadables Deductible?
Today, everyone is developing a presence on the Internet. Few resort owners and operators, however, give any thought to the tax breaks available to…
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It Ain’t Just Skiing
The ski schools at Aspen are shooting for a 90 percent return rate, a dramatic contrast to the 15 percent industry average. Of course,…
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Brian Fairbank: On a Mission to Convert
Fifty-four-year-old Brian Fairbank, the human dynamo at the helm of Jiminy Peak and Brodie Mountain in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, who is also…
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B-to-B Websites
This new column will be an ongoing service and we invite any suggestions and ideas via email to [email protected]. We also don’t guarantee that…
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SAM Idea Files
Idea #1: $25 Kiddie Water Slide Many of the young children visiting Wild Mountain, Minn., with their parents were too small to enjoy the…
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Construction Site
Brodie Mountain The first thing Joe O’Donnell and I did after we purchased Brodie Mountain Ski Resort, Mass., in November, 1999, was to evaluate…