In This Issue
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Hands Across The Ocean
Ann Rowan and Claire Walter report on the innovative Austrian/Coloradan “Knowhow Exchange.” These industry executives learned lots from each other.
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Marketplace
It’s considered a marketing phenomenon—and fact of life—in other businesses and industries, so why not in skiing? I’m talking about the emerging…
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X-Country Skiing
Cross-country trail development is a multi-step process that begins with a walk or ski over and flagging of the proposed route. Once…
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The Rental Shop
In 1950 the late Mitch Cubberly introduced the Cubco binding. This was the first popular binding which did not rely on ski-boot-to-binding…
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Vehicle Round-Up
Every year sees the industry crossing new thresholds in over-snow vehicles—thresholds of engineering sophistication and design, to say nothing of price. We’re…
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Economic Study
The 1978-79 ski season recorded mixed results. Again weather conditions were adverse in the East, Mid-west and Pacific Northwest and resulted in…
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Computers
“How do I decide whether I need a computer?” “Do I have to hire a programmer and computer operators—in short, a good-size…
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Crystal Mountain, Wa
Ed Link and Don Christianson were handed a tough assignment a dozen years ago: Turn around the financially beleaguered, six-year-old Crystal Mountain…
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Caring For Kids
It didn’t take Fred Pabst long after he opened Bromley in 1937 to realize some sort of slopeside facilities for children would…
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Shaft Safety In Chairlift Gearboxes
Ed. Note: SAM is happy to publish the following technical article on an important subject. We do so in the knowledge that…
