In This Issue
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Women’s Demo Team
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Rarified Dining
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Gets an “A” for Effort
“I went to Poma cold,” said Larry Beidleman, vice president for planning with the Aspen Skiing Corp. “I had never even seen…
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New Products
Rental sled “Super Sled”, is a padded and steerable 52-inch sled with virtually frictionless 2” tubular steel runners that allow high speeds…
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Ski Reports
Ski Roundtop, Inc., headquartered in York, PA., acquired the property, improvements and equipment of the Windham Ski Club of Windham, N.Y. it…
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Ski School: Measuring Financial Success
April is the time to evaluate your ski school’s performance for the past season. A detailed financial analysis is necessary to determine…
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Letters
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Speak Out
Just weeks after being named to the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame, “Bunny” Bertram died at the age 73. His Suicide 6…
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The Marketplace: Is There Any (New) Business Out There?
It’s that time of year—the time to plan and budget for the 1981-82 season’s marketing programs.
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The Rental Shop
An effective area repair shop requires high productivity. Fundamental to achieving this is having good personnel—a scarce commodity. The job is seasonal…
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Ski Area Management Issues
One of the more interesting—perhaps charming—attributes associated with all of us in the ski world is that we rarely do things by…
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Washington Report: Energy, Public Lands, Tourism Under Reagan
Ski industry representatives here have launched a new drive to work out alternative ways for skiers to cope with transportation difficulties caused…
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X-Country Connection: Names Don’t Count in Trail Design
“Keep it simple.”These words have become more meaningful to me with the passage of time, and particularly today in relation to cross-country…
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Bunny Bertram
1908 – 1981 (Editor’s note. Wallace “Bunny” Bertram, one of the six newest members of the National Ski Hall of Fame, died…
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The “Truck Theory” of Management
All ski areas have policies and procedures which guide operations. All too often, these are communicated to staff members verbally and are…
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Salute To Eastern
The Eastern Ski Area Operators’ Association dissolved in January, and its passing marked the end of an era in the ski industry.…
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2 On Wire Rope
1. The Science (and Art) of Splicing Six-Strand Wire Rope by Jim Ellis, P.E.Aerial Engineering The process of performing any task may…
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Glulams Are Back
Glulam beams are finding their way back into the forests as ski resort operators are turning to “structural glued laminated timber” for…
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Vehicle Interiors
Remember what it was like driving the snow grooming vehicles of 10 or 15 years ago? During that period, most attachments were…
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Poma With A Capital P
The Poma lift company is coming to the U.S. with a sales force, engineers and production capacity to manufacture lifts. Prior to…
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A Better Idea
What does an 18 year old high school senior from Schnectady, New York have that, is of interest to SAM readers? Very…
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Butternut Basin
When you have neither the mountains nor the snowmaking, the slopeside lodging nor the sizzling apres ski scene of a Killington or…


