In This Issue
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Blue Pages
How will insurance industry woes affect ski industry?
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What
Duramark signs, SkiJewel, EZ-Web rubber rope, Fluke digital multimeter, EasyFold pocket map, Telephone Doctor, Sno Pusher, YTS Ginzugroomer, SnowCart, SnowMagic, LogoTile.
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward
Resorts should periodically reassess the value of press trips to make sure they are capitalizing on the experience and expense. While it…
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Speak Out: Sept. 11th
What Happens from Here? by Steve Wright, Killington, Vt. September 15, 2001—It’s Friday night and a crazy week is finally about behind…
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The Aftermath
In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks that stunned the nation and left Americans in a state of shock and…
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The End Page
Instead of our usual “light” End Page, we decided to devote this month’s page to people from the mountain resort industry who…
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SAM Idea Files
How Tall is Too Small? Méribel in Les Trois Vallées, France, needed a way to measure the size of the children who…
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What’s New
Sign Off Duramark introduces a line of signs designed for the long term. The signs are manufactured using computerized 3D routing and…
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Reading Into Industry Statistics
While we realize that the economic factors facing us this year are hard to predict, basic business principles and trends will always…
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The View From Down Under
On 13 November, 1999, I stepped onto United Airlines flight 69 out of Sydney bound for Los Angeles, uncertain of what the…
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Industry Reports
Steamboat Finalists Three companies are vying for ownership of Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp., which was put up for sale by the…
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Applying VF Drives at Ski Areas
This is a companion article to “New Life for Old Lifts” from the July, 2001 SAM and answers additional questions related to…
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To Hell and Back
Comeback stories are nothing new to the ski industry, which has seen its share of entrepreneurs overcome great adversities to pursue their…
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Construction Site
Deer Valley Contractors at Deer Valley, Utah, site of the 2002 Olympic slalom, moguls and aerials events, are wrapping up three years…
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Guns, Games and Skinny Skis
Soldier Hollow, near Midway, Utah, will be the single busiest venue during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Twenty miles from Park City, the…
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Of Mountains and Motors
As winter resorts try to become entertainment facilities for the masses, some have looked to a rather unorthodox form of business revenue—snocross.…
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From the Streets to the Slopes
Most ski areas now accept the logic behind offering more than just downhill skiing and snowboarding. Smaller areas with limited vertical have…
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The Road Back
It was about 3:30 pm, April 17, 1999, while doing something I loved and thought I did well, that my life changed…
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Half Empty or Half Full
Following is a description of a current model or formula for determining ski area and lift capacity. A companion article on determining…
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Getting Smarter on Uncle Sam’s Dollar
Most ski resort owners and operators have long realized that one of their greatest assets is employees, especially considering the amount of…
