In This Issue
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What’s New?
New products: storage solution, wilderness flares, Ear Mitts, wrist altimeter, snowboard/boot dryer, radio hipster pack, two-way radio, Super Dragon 2002, mini golf…
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It Really Does Take A Village
Community pride in high school ski champions helped inspire a town to donate cash and labor to bring a new lift and…
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Value Deals On Snow
A new, simplified pricing program at Cranmore Mountain has meant shorter lines, happier customers and more skier visits.
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Industry Reports
Two Colorado Resorts Get New Operators The fates of two major Colorado resorts, Winter Park and Steamboat Springs, have finally been decided.…
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Suprisingly Good Start
Defying high odds, including an economic recession, a shell-shocked travel industry and mild weather, the 2001-02 U.S. ski season came out of…
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Blue Pages
California Resorts to Sue USFS? If we’ve learned anything from the Sierra Club and others like them it’s that there’s nothing like…
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SAM Idea Files
Idea #1: Sled Lift Winter Park, Colo., operates an alpine slide in the summertime and was looking for an easier and safer…
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A Better Way of Doing Business
A relatively new way of forming a business entity could prove to be the most profitable when it comes to operating a…
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Breaking the Chain
International safety organizations say that for every disaster or fatality there are 30 minor accidents, 300 near misses and 30,000 unsafe actions,…
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Hunting For Treasure
Our local cross-country ski recreational program coordinated a treasure hunt for kids on the final day of the season last year and…
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The Fan Club
As ski areas strive to be the first to open, the last to close and to offer great snow in between, they’ve…
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Mixing Art with Skis
A pair of challenging cross-country ski trails loops through 30 acres of densely wooded, hilly terrain. They are meant to be fast…
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Adrenaline Junkies
As athletes ranging from weekend enthusiasts to world-class endurance fanatics have broadened the scope of the sports they play, the standard Saturday…
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2000-2001 Economic Analysis
Dramatic improvement best describes the financial performance of the 2000-2001 ski and snowboard season. Uniformly good snow at the right time across…
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Killer Snow
Twenty years later, patrolman Casey Jones at Alpine Meadows, Calif., still recalls the moment when Anna Conrad was miraculously found. “This hand…
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And Then There Were Two
The North American ski world is having to come to grips with the implications of a shrunken marketplace, as measured in product…
