SAM Coverage
Summer Operations
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Golf Meets Frisbee
What sport tests players against an established par, uses tees and holes, has a professional tournament circuit and uses Frisbees to score? Yes, Frisbees.…
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Tarzan for a Day
Take equal parts Tarzan and James Bond, add a safety tether and mix with rope bridges and zip lines in the trees and you’ve…
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Summer Toys Provide Off-Season Thrills
Who says summer has to be all planning and no play? Because of an array of new off-season toys, ski and snowboard resorts have…
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Score One For A Golf Developer
The following story on enviromental opposition is reprinted from the Golf Business Green Sheet of the Golf Development Institute, Ignacio, California. PURCHASE, NY —…
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Catching Amusement Trends
A trend in the amusement business is participatory attractions where the customer controls his destiny within the attraction. With this innovation, the amusement business…
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Music’s Coming To The Mountains
Music and the mountains. It seems like such a natural combination — and it is. Ski resorts have the facilities, the parking, the staff…
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Summer
Why should anyone go to a ski area in the summer? After all, the countryside abounds in attractions, and cities are packed with activities.…
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Slide Is The Way To Ride
“What it’s like, very frankly, is having two ski seasons a year,” Thaddeus Thorne commented happily. Thorne, president of the Mt. Attitash Lift Corporation…
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Soaring– High Road To Profits
The sport of soaring isn’t new, but its popularity is growing at an astonishing rate. What does it all mean to the ski area?…
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So You Want To Build A Golf Course?
Time was when a ski area would close its doors with the last kernel of spring snow and unobtrusively sit out the summer months…