In This Issue
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Rigging
Cat skinning and lift rigging have nothing in common, except that there’s more than one way to do both jobs. Any reasonably…
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NSAA Newsletter
Ski Area Safety and Liability Act Let’s suppose that a judge in your state hands down a ruling in a ski injury…
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New Products
Valley Engineering, of Gray, Me., has introduced two products to its line of snow grooming equipment.
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Ski Resort Marketplace
The pending Haskell Bill has many good points to be sure, such as affording longer term leases of larger acreages of U.S.F.S.…
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Speak Out
The mid-air collision on August 26, 1977, which took the life of Hugh W. Killebrew, Jr., owner-operator of the Heavenly Valley Resort…
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Issues and Update on Energy
Sunday v Stratton …an update and an idea These are nervous days for the ski industry as we watch the after-shocks of…
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Report
The ink was barely dry on the documents that conveyed the stricken giant, Mt. Snow, when its new, action-oriented owners, the Sherburne…
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Letters
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Furry Invasion
Many California skiers these days do double-takes on German Shephards riding chairlifts and trams, as ski patrolmen from Mt. Shasta to Tahoe…
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New York-Private Vs Public
“The State of New York is subsidizing the operation of its three ski centers. “The three state-operated ski centers incurred a loss…
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Getting Covered
There are two reasons for a resort to hold a race or other competitive event: 1) the manager, a former racer, feels…
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Electromagnetic Testing
The Vail gondola accident last year focused the attention of aerial tramway and ski lift interests on a previously little known or…
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Rope Tows
It is some time since SAM has run an article on rope tows—those work-horse devices that got our industry started. Those classic…
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If I Were A Ski Area Operator
Last winter, Ski Area Management announced a nationwide contest with cash prizes for the best essays on the subject, “If I were…
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The Freebie Hustle
“Robert Wilkinson” visited a number of ski areas in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania last season. As a “staff editor of Ski…
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Counterweights Need Watching Too
Are you taking your ski lift counterweight for granted? That innocuous looking block of concrete dangling precariously from a tension sheave mounting…
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Inflation Index
The cost of skiing is a major concern for many skiers, ski area operators, and public administrators. Is the sport being priced…
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In Court
I have noticed that in a number of legal suits filed against ski areas the complainants have indicated their belief that the…
