SAM Coverage
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Hail to the [new] Chief
Mike Dombeck is the new Forest Service Chief and thus a very important person to our industry. One of his first acts was to…
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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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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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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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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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Editorial Integrity On Trial
I keep putting quotes around “ski testing” because what you three magazines do is not real testing: it’s more akin to theater reviews. Subjective,…
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Just Say ” No!”
I have a message for all ski resort presidents. The subject is discount card companies. The message: Just say “NO!” The role and value…
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A Plea From The Watering Hole
The small watering hole in the Serengeti Plain of Kenya, vital to all creatures, great and small, can be a stressful place when a…
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Rentals And Risk
I’m in the rental business, so I rent skis wherever I go. I usually get good equipment, tuned and waxed for the mountain, but…