In This Issue
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Getting a Grip
With all the excitement being generated by the Next Games, the X Games, and the emphasis on more and more freestyle terrain…
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Another Guest Editor, the SAMMYs and more
First, we at SAM would like to wish you a Happy New Year! As we write this, it is mid-December and the…
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Down to the Wire
The battle is on for the last-minute guest. And the Internet, which helped create the phenomenon, is now helping ski resorts cash…
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Blue Pages
The Other (Hiking) Shoe Drops The Forest Service has marked the 100th anniversary of the national parks and forest system with a…
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To the Editor
Updating Our Image The following is in response to a November 2004 article titled, “The Look of the Future,” by Ken Castle…
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Girl Power
Freezing cold hands and feet. Concrete slams and a busted butt. An aggro adolescent launching over your barely-alive body while you lay…
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Steel Prices on the Rise
Thanks, in large part, to China’s booming economy, the worldwide demand for steel is off the charts. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed…
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Defusing the Bomb
Difficult customers or guests are made, not born. Somewhere, somehow, something went wrong in this person’s recent history, and now they stand…
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B77 Revision Advances
The biggest changes in the latest edition of the B77.1 standard on lift operations are in resort signage, fuel handling, and updating…
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Industry Report
Mountain High on the Block? Oaktree Capital Management, owners of southern California’s Mountain High ski area, have retained a financial advisor, Houlihan,…
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SAM Idea Files
In the Driver’s Seat The lift attendants at Cascade Mountain, Wisc., sure have a cushy job thanks to this idea—recycled automobile seats.…
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A Look of Their Own
When the Homewood, Calif., lift department uniforms were at the end of their life cycle, management did the usual thing: the general…
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Beyond the Slopes
Counter-seasonal attractions and businesses have become significant sources of income for many winter resorts over the past few decades. These developments often…
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Lifts 2004-An Overdue Rebound
It was a busy summer as resorts across North America gave themselves a little boost in uphill capacity. While not a record,…
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Fishing for Publicity
It’s early June 2004. The slopes up on the hillside are lush green, except for the bright-white patch of snow where 600…
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Size Doesn’t Matter
Take to heart how much the mainstream ski press highlights resort “amenities,” and you’d think that unless your area installs the world’s…
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Babe in the Woods
In mid-December, Tamarack Resort in west-central Idaho, the first new destination resort built in more than two decades, opened. It is in…
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Visions of the Future
What does the future hold? Where is the industry headed? We asked six prominent figures to predict the future in their respective…
