In This Issue
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Score One For A Golf Developer
The following story on enviromental opposition is reprinted from the Golf Business Green Sheet of the Golf Development Institute, Ignacio, California. PURCHASE,…
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Tacky, Tacky, Tacky
The cheering crowds are gathered around the finish line…the TV cameras record the speeding skier as he heads over the final roll…
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Harnessing The Skier Voice
We are three: the president of one of America’s oldest ski areas; the president of one of America’s top-five ski and boot…
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A Savvy Environmental Response
It is a gastropod the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen; it has genital pores and anus on the right…
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Thanks, Chris; Greetings, Gary
NSAA heads into the next two years with a new team at the top, headed by incoming chairman, Gary McCoy, of Mammoth…
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An Extremely Bizarre Season
The 1993-94 ski season will be remembered for extremes — extremes of weather, of business, and lest we are so ungrateful as…
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NSAA Domestic And International Marketing
NSAA Domestic Marketing Action plans to be offered to membership A few years ago, in the waning days of the “old” NSAA…
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New Products
Weather station MesoTech introduces the TFV 4065 weather station with no moving parts. According to the designers, the station is not affected…
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On Line: Mba Software
At almost every small ski area where computers are used, three programs — a word processor, a spreadsheet and a data base…
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Dream Trips And Nightmares
“HALLO THERE!” Hjalmar exclaimed as we trudged off the airplane. He had huge white teeth, feverish eyes and the kind of bone-and-sinew…
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Feeding The Hungry Skier: Ideal Food Cost
One question that ski area food and beverage operators often ask is: “What should my food cost be?” Because every operation is…
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Afternoon Groom
When lights for night skiing were installed six years ago at Shawnee Peak, Me., the expectation was that night skiers would have…
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NSAA’s New Leader
In a line of succession that dates from its founding in 1962, Gary McCoy, of Mammoth Mountain, Calif., is slated to become…
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Sit-Ski Comes To Cross-Country
Wheelchair athletes are a familiar sight at road races and alpine ski events; now they are cross country skiing as well. This…
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Travel Takes A Super Highway
The Information Super Highway—”where the rubber meets the road” —will it be a smooth ride?…Is skiing value quantifiable?…How optimistic are the economists?…Where…
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Belt Transmissions
In the first article on “Lift Basics,” (January 1992 SAM on gear ratios) I promised to explain the basics of belt drives…
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Snowmaking For Christmas
There are few sure bets in this world, but one certainly is this: when you own a ski resort and it’s December…
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1994 Vehicle Roundup
This has been a very exciting season for over-the-snow vehicles, their dealers and especially for those of you fortunate enough to get…
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It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It.
Most people are aware of the impact that great advertising has on us as consumers. It makes us laugh, makes us think,…
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Killington’s Dazzling New Gondola
“State-of-the-art” is a term routinely used in describing a new lift installation. But whose art is it a state of? In the…
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Are Your Lifts Driving You (And Your Neighbors) Crazy?
When Vail’s lift boss, Dave Larson, said: “OK Steve, let’s go for it,” I broke into a cold sweat. For over two…
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Oh My Gosh! Is There An Endangered Snail In My Snowmaking Pond?
Eldora Mountain Resort, located just outside of Boulder, Colorado, found itself in the middle of an environmental issue concerning a small snail,…
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Worth A Second Look
Thirty or forty years ago, they were called warming huts; today we call them lodges — base, day, summit — but the…
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Hitting The Niche With The Point Ticket
To give the end of the story, the point ticket program available as an option to Mt. Bachelor’s guests for the past…
