In This Issue
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Construction Site
Projects detailed at: Seven Springs, Pa., Telluride, Colo., Bristol Mountain, N.Y., Chestnut Mountain, Ill., and Big Mountain, Mont.
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Stay Tuned
The article highlights the practices and the importance of keeping rental fleets tuned for customers. Contains a sidebar on backshop tips.
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Avalanches and Your Customers
This piece advocates resorts offering guests educational avenues to learn about avalanches and backcountry safety as off-piste skiing becomes more popular among…
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Increasing Skier Visits
This piece posits that better retention rates and real growth will be improved if the ski instruction martketplace is opened up to…
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Needed: Shaper Beginner Rental Ski
Tim’s piece decrys the apparent lack of durability of shaped beginner rental skis. The cap construction, he says, means the ski looks…
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A Vital New Role for Ski Schools?
David points out that in trying to fix low retention rates among ski areas, ski school needs to play an important role,…
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Our High-Flying Real Estate Image
This short piece points out that while selling real estate isn’t a bad thing, the ski industry could be hurt by the…
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Staying in the Green
This is a roundup of what resorts across the continent are doing to be environmentally sensitive.
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End Page
Joe Gmuender engineering from a lawn chair; using old skis as tomato stakes; engineering definition from Nils Ericksen; A weird survey.
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Blue Pages
Skiing Co and TMM Sold to Time, Inc.; SACC to Grade Resort Environmental Records; Sydney Dynamics Sought for 2002; piece on Jim…
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SAM Idea Files
Mirrors at top terminals to help lift operators keep watch of the end of the unloading ramp while also watching approaching skiers…
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Construction Site
Projects detailed at: Seven Springs, Pa., Telluride, Colo., Bristol Mountain, N.Y., Chestnut Mountain, Ill., and Big Mountain, Mont.
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cover illustration
The cover is an illustration by Marcelo Vignali of Schweitzer Mountain’s new Stella 6-pack. The story is in the loading and unloading…
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Drawing Athletes Out of Doors
This article describes a Tubbs Snowshoes-Reebock program aimed at increasing snowshoeing at resorts by appealing to indoor athletes in city gyms. Programs…
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Nastar is Reborn
The story explains the new deal to rejuvenate citizen racing at ski areas through Nastar. Agreement hammered out involving SKI magazine, the…
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Triumph of a Dream
This actually is an excerpt from Pete Seibert’s new coffee-table book “Vail: Triumph of a Dream.”
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Lift Loading Accidents
This is a case review of an accident that reaffirms the importance of proper training of lift attendants.
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Not Just Another Pretty Face
Mount Shasta, Calif., keeps breaking skier visit numbers. This profile of the operation tries to shed some light on the reason for…
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Pioneer Fantasy Lift
Schweitzer Mountain, Idaho, built a new Garaventa six-pack and modified the terminals to make it look like a 19th century steam-powered contraption.…
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A (Super) Pipe Dream
The piece details the first specifications for internationally sanctioned halfpipe events. A diagram details the specs for building FIS-approved superpipes.
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Building for Beginners
The author takes the reader through a first-timer’s first experience, detailing the rights and wrongs of layouts. Make it easy and straightforward,…
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Growth by Lessons
This is a profile of the successful ski school operation at Hyland Ski and Snowboard Area in Minnesota. Bucking a national trend,…
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Snowmaking Survey
This is the report of a survey conducted at Colorado Mountain College that asked resorts about snowmaking practices, covereages, training for personnel,…
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2001: A Global Ski Odyssey
An around-the-world look at what’s happenning in the ski industry. Covered areas: Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, Scandinavia and Northern Europe, Andorra, Spain,…
