SAM Coverage
Speak Out
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Skål, Jerry
It feels good to be able to write something nice about someone in these columns without it being an obituary. So, let’s hear it…
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Olympic Valley Heroes
The extraordinary floods and mud slides that hit California over New Year’s were calamitous in many ways (see pages 52 – 53), but there…
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Shaped Skis—Two SAM Views
I—A Revolution That Failed? by Janet Nelson The ski magazines claim it’s a revolution. Manufacturers say they are creating the weapons that will make…
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The Forest Service: Is A New Beginning Possible?
“I hope very much after the election there will be time for everyone to sit down and talk about giving the Forest Service a…
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What Do We Call Ourselves?
A few issues ago we wondered out loud about whether we should still be in the “ski business” when so much of our bread…
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Focus on Consolidation
Readers will find a lot in this issue about a subject that it is hard to avoid these days: merger, consolidation, agglomeration— whatever. It’s…
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A Savvy Environmental Response
It is a gastropod the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen; it has genital pores and anus on the right side of…
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Tacky, Tacky, Tacky
The cheering crowds are gathered around the finish line…the TV cameras record the speeding skier as he heads over the final roll and down…
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Harnessing The Skier Voice
We are three: the president of one of America’s oldest ski areas; the president of one of America’s top-five ski and boot companies; and…
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Thanks, Chris; Greetings, Gary
NSAA heads into the next two years with a new team at the top, headed by incoming chairman, Gary McCoy, of Mammoth Mountain, Calif.,…