In This Issue
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Rumbling And Sliding
Easily the most talked-about summer marketing device is the slide. There are two systems being marketed which are quite different in design,…
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Public Funds and the Private Sector
Gore, Whiteface, Sunapee and the Pennsylvania Gas and Water Co. have a common bond: Plans that have provoked anger and dismay as…
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Report
Although Sierra ski resorts are coming off the worst snow year in their history, most of them are financially healthy, and at…
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New Products
A low-cost, light-weight magnetic wire rope tester is available through Lift Consultants, 1355 Joliet Place, Detroit, MI 48207.
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Letters
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Speak Out
A Bright Future! The after-shocks of the recession, the energy crisis and the Great Eastern Snow Drought of 72-74 continue to be…
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Televising Snow
Reporting ski area snow conditions on television sometimes falls into the category of “news” during weather wrap-up features, but this is the…
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A Naked Look At The Year-Round Resort
Raymond S. Rodgers is a Canadian planning consultant who took a busman’s holiday at a half-dozen ski-oriented, year-round residential communities in the…
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One Up On Nastar
There is nothing new, but there are always twists to make the old look new. For instance, many ski areas have taken…
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NSAA Newsletter
Coca-Cola and NSAA Develop Sweepstakes Running during the months of January and February of 1977 in fourteen of the largest markets in…
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Whirlpools In The Snow
In ski history there has long been a relationship between snow and warm water. First there was the daring and innovative outdoor…
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Wire Rope Inspections
A detailed Wire Rope Inspection shall be made upon a recommendation by the general inspection (see 3.4.1) or immediately after any accident…
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Streamflow
During the past several years, the Forest Service has been asked how cutting ski trails through forest land might affect streams. The…
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Why’s Of Winter Weather
For the past several winters the weather has refused to cooperate either with the calendar or with the ski business. In the…
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The Vacation Skiers
Putting the skier under the microscope is always interesting, and sometimes illuminating. Starting in 1950, Ski Magazine has produced a large volume…
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Metropolitan X-Country Center
The building and maintaining of a lighted cross-country ski course in Glens Falls, in upstate New York, is a total community effort.…
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Cross Country– How To Make It Work
Cross-country skiers are on the move—their tracks cutting through silent snows, their provisions on their backs—and their numbers are cutting into the…
