In This Issue
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Grooming Vehicles 2003
This year’s stable of grooming vehicles are more powerful, lighter and more comfortable. Plus, a new kid on the block.
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The End Page
An eqic Zaugga and winter in Connecticut.
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Bring on the Numbers!
For industry bean counters, April brings more than showers: it brings the results of the annual participation surveys, such as those conducted…
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Publishers’ Memo
2003 SAMMY Award Winners Announced Another year and another great crop of SAMMY winners! We couldn’t be more proud of these four.…
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Snow Is King
It’s the weather. Not war, not recession, not travel jitters. It’s the weather that makes or breaks a ski season. Never has…
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Blue Pages
The Snow Gods Must Be Crazy Dan Egan sounds like a lunatic. Egan, general manager of Tenney Mountain, N.H., plans to begin…
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SAM Idea Files
Double Tension This rope-tow tension system, designed by Dennis Evinrude, GM at Ausblick Ski Area, Wisc., was designed to answer the urgent…
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Hard-Headed
Indemnification is becoming the risk management mantra for ski area shops that rent helmets. But many areas “haven’t organized their procedures to…
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Book Review: The Snow Summit Story 1952-2002
**The Snow Summit Story—1952-2002**, by Richard Kun. 68 pages, heavily illustrated with vintage photos. Foreward by Doug Pfeiffer, who helped in the…
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Where Freedom and Responsibility Collide
When local skier David Krause, 47, went out of bounds at Stowe Mountain Resort this past January, it’s a safe bet he…
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Blowing in the Wind
As the hot summer of 2002 was coming to a close, Catamount Energy Corporation knocked on Magic Mountain’s door. The company, a…
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Industry Reports
Tamarack Clears Another Hurdle The proposed Tamarack Resort in Idaho can now proceed with development this summer after receiving a 49-year lease…
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Not to Me!
Some years ago, I nearly killed myself in an industrial accident. It was March, and there was still a lot of snow…
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Construction Site
Ski Plattekill, N.Y. This small area’s new North Face Express is a 3,500-foot double chair operating at a rope speed of 500…
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Tamarack Takes Root
It’s not big enough. The elevation is too low. Snow isn’t reliable. The road is impassable. The terrain’s too flat. That was…
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Do I Need a Rocket Scientist?
“Do I need to hire a rocket scientist?” I thought to myself while running correlations between lift faults and sunstorm activity. The…
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Total Integration
High-volume rental operations and high-tech computer software are proving to be a good fit at Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR) operations.…
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Is it Getting Hot in Here?
It rained in Aspen during January—too little to snap the drought, but eerily too much for mid-winter. It never used to rain…
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Going All Out
When Bear Mountain and Snow Summit in southern California merged last fall, they were determined to offer the ultimate freestyle paradise. The…
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A Wake-Up Call
This was supposed to be a new Golden Age of skiing. Wall Street money was supposed to recapitalize the industry, improving the…
