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Where Are the Kids?
Where Are the Kids? A SAM editorial For the lead editorial in our 40th Anniversary issue, we come up with a radical new idea—radical…
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Diversity and Promise on the Tubing Hill
Two days before this past Christmas my family and I visited Gunstock Ski Area, N.H., to find barely a liftline on a cold, clear…
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A Modest Proposal for Our Statistical Disarray
I prefer not to remember the number of times this magazine has spelled out our industry’s short-sightedness in failing to develop useable numbers for…
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Time for Common Cause with X-C?
A SAM Editorial OK, so it’s a different culture. So the skinny-ski set don’t buy lift tickets. So you think it’s not cool. But,…
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Just Cleaning Up at Aspen
The novelty of allowing snowboarding at Aspen lasted until about mid-afternoon on the day they opened the doors. After that, anyone who suddenly materialized…
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Let’s Not Market Danger
The U.S. ski and Snowboard Team has earned a lot of honors this past season. It is poised to perform grandly, we are sure,…
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Coming Full Circle
The following is an excerpted book review from the November 1985 issue of Ski Area Management magazine. Commentary can be found at the end…
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Remembering Dave McTaggart
The ski industry has often served as a magnet for quixotic, flamboyant, sometimes beloved, often roguish charmers. Few have surpassed David McTaggart, who died…
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Two Greats Pass On
Sverre Engen, last of the three Norwegian brothers, Alf, Sverre and Corey, who made so much ski history in the U.S., died April 4…
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FRanklin Bowers-Industry Model
Frank Bowers died last year at the age of 67. He worked for Hall Ski-Lift and its successor, Von Roll Tramways, for 30 years,…