In This Issue
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Children’s Safety Poster Contest
The cover image is an entry from the NSAA’s children’s safety poster contest. The colorful rendition of a snowboarder wearing a helmet…
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Our New SAMMY Winners; A Sister for SAM
Two memos: One announcing the 2000 SAMMY Award winners: Karyn Thorr, Joe Stevens, Greg Murtha and Matt Mosteller. The second announcing a…
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NSAA’s Poster Contest Gets Kids Involved
This is a one-page layout of some of the winning posters from the NSAA’s inaugural safety poster contest that targeted kids. It…
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Letters to the Editor
Letter taking exception with an End Page piece (January 2000) on a multiple-lift tower at Les Menuires, FRance. And a letter clarifying…
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Who Visited This Season?
The hottest topic to come out of the National Skier/Boarder Opinion Survey in recent years is the skier/snowboarder mix. While skiers still…
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What’s Wrong With Biodiversity?
The White River National Forest in Colorado is home to 11 major ski resorts and accounts for approximately 13 percent of the…
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Marketing-Not Magic Bulletts
Everyone agrees: The ski industry needs to increase skier visits. Everyone is searching for a magic bullet that will make this happen.…
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Charles Beebe-A True Pioneer
Charlie Beebe was an original—determined, colorful opinionated and totally dedicated to the growth of skiing. He started his Temple Mountain Ski Area…
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Cuck Lewis-Remembering a Leader
Chuck Lewis seemed so strong, so indestructible. It is hard to come to grips with the death of this remarkable industry leader.…
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Late Starts, Great Finishes
A late start for everybody, an early finish east of the Rockies and a Millennium hangover in between added up to an…
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Blue Pages
Criminal Charges in Skiing Death? On April 10, the Colorado Supreme Court moved into uncharted waters when it ruled on a 1997…
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SAM Idea Files
Idea #1: $25 Kiddie Water Slide Many of the young children visiting Wild Mountain, Minn., with their parents were too small to…
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Construction Site
Brodie Mountain The first thing Joe O’Donnell and I did after we purchased Brodie Mountain Ski Resort, Mass., in November, 1999, was…
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Seth Says: On-line Auction of Ski Lessons
I hooked up with Slats Grabski over spring break. You’ll recall that Slats made a nice little killing last year when he…
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Turnaround: Pisten Bully versus Lift Tower
What happens to a ski lift tower when a 1,400-pound groomer hits it head on? Answer: Plenty. At Brodie Mountain Ski Resort,…
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Industry Reports
Gillett Steps Down and Takes Targhee with Him In the span of a week, George N. Gillett, Jr, chairman of Booth Creek…
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Developing Nordic Trails at Alpine Resorts
Cross-country ski centers located at alpine ski resorts offer many benefits to the overall resort operation, not least of which is an…
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Ski News From Around the World
End of segregated skiing in Iran The BBC has reported that segregated skiing in Iran may now be a thing of the…
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Sinage: Creating a Visual Identity
The primary reason most ski areas get little more than a passing grade for their signage is the sheer volume of different…
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X-C Detailed Guidebook
Jonathan Wiesel’s Cross-Country Ski Vacations: A Guide to the Best Resorts, Lodges, and Groomed Trails in North America by Jonathan WieselPrice: $15.95/…
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ANSI B77 is 40: A BRief History
June 8 is the 40th anniversary of the approval of what was then called the USA Standard Safety Code for Aerial Passenger…
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Snowmaking Goes High-Tech
The use of automation in snowmaking has been a progression from the first days that this revolutionary technique was introduced. The evolution…
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Summer Toys Provide Off-Season Thrills
Who says summer has to be all planning and no play? Because of an array of new off-season toys, ski and snowboard…
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Grooming Vehicles 2000
Park groomers are the hot vehicle for the upcoming ski season with both Kassbohrer’s Pisten Bully and Bombardier making a play for…
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The Double Swivel Chair: A Trend to Nowhere
It was March of 1943 and a young German ski racer, Karl Ringer, was on a train from Munich to Nikolajew, a…
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Intrawest: A Rental Profile
Rental shops get a bad rap. And it’s no wonder. Traditionally, rental shops have been located in hard-to-find places, they’ve been dark…
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Greening the Sundeck
Most buildings are resource pigs. They use 30 percent of the all energy in the U.S. and 60 percent of the electricity.…
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1998-1999 Economic Analysis
Unfavorable early-season snow conditions and widespread variation in snowfall characterized the 1998-1999 ski season, producing mixed financial performance. The season saw a…
