SAM Coverage
Summer Operations
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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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Bobsleds May Be The Future
Skiing may be exciting, but Vail Associates has extended on-snow exhilaration to the ultimate Walter Mitty experience: a bobsled course adjacent to the ski…
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Attack Of The Mistletoe
When disease strikes a forest, the normal procedure is to clear-cut—remove all the trees in an affected stand. In the case of the Sawtooth…
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Summer Money At Vernon Valley, NJ
Amusement parks have been around for close to 100 years; Coney Island’s roller coaster dates back to 1927; Disneyland opened in 1955. The American…
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Summer Money At Ski Liberty, PA
Remember the “turf” ski? Forget it! The grass skis of today are to “turf” skis what fiberglass skis are to hickory boards of the…
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Summer Money At Sun Valley, ID
Sun Valley is well known as an all-around winter resort. It might be equally well-known as the quintessential summer resort. On both counts it…
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Summer Money At Sugar Hills, MN
There’s an art to keeping a ski resort busy and profitable during the summer, and the Charles Skinners of Sugar Hills in northern Minnesota…
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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…