SAM Coverage
Snowmaking
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Maximizing Every Flake
When winter doesn’t deliver on schedule, ski areas adapt surface management strategies to get open and stay open. In case you hadn’t heard, a prolonged snow…
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Storing Snow Through the Summer
Once an oddity, storing snow from one season to the next is becoming a viable strategy. By the time the mound of snow at…
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Betting on Snow?
More snowmaking after a snow drought? By mid-February, winter in the West felt upside down. Rain had fallen at destination resorts in Colorado and…
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Pats Peak Snowmaking Expansion Includes Multifold Increases to Pumping Capacity, Water Storage
SAM Magazine—Henniker, N.H., March 3, 2026—Pats Peak will undergo a significant expansion of its snowmaking system this summer that will allow the ski area…
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2026 “I AM a Snowmaker” Voting is Now Open
SAM Magazine—Natick, Mass., Jan. 20, 2026—Online voting for the videos produced by six chosen ski areas competing in the 2026 “I AM a Snowmaker”…
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Six Snowmaking Teams Selected for 2026 “I AM a Snowmaker”
SAM Magazine—Natick, Mass., November 4, 2025—Teams from Boyne Mountain, Mich.; Burke Mountain, Vt.; Killington Resort, Vt.; Poley Mountain, New Brunswick; Seven Springs, Pa.; and…
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Go Time: Early Season Snowmaking
The right equipment, a well-aligned plan, and an engaged team help resorts get open quickly and efficiently. Snow guns roared on Copper Mountain’s Oh…
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Early Turns and Snow Guns Signal Start of the 2025-26 Season
SAM Magazine—Shrewsbury, Mass., Oct. 22, 2025—The first turns of the 2025-26 season are in the books. Ski Ward in Massachusetts fired up its all-weather…
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Adopting Automation
How two ski areas took the leap into automated snowmaking, and what the results have shown. In response to increasingly fickle snowmaking windows and…
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Skiing Double: Deer Valley East
An expansion of staggering scope, once dreamt of in the original plans for Deer Valley more than 50 years ago, is coming to life. In…