In This Issue
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SAM Idea Files
Quick Disconnect For easy access to chairlift loading areas by ski patrol, lift maintenance people and grooming vehicles, Mark Barthel, mountain manager…
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The End Page
We wonder how many customers at Wilmot Mountain, Wisc., must have dropped their precious pies before this sign was deemed necessary. Throw…
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Blue Pages
How Green Is That Scorecard? The Ski Area Citizens’ Coalition (SACC)’s annual Ski Area Environmental Scorecard has created more than its share…
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A New Guest Editor and More
In this issue we turned to one of our original SAMMY winners for his thoughts and comments—Tim Boyd. Boyd is the president…
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Tuning Out
We’ve come a long way since the days of operating each segment at a resort as a separate profit center. Learning Centers…
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Building Tomorrow’s Leaders
by Janice White, Janice White & Associates, HR Management Solutions Resort managers know the importance of treating employees as “internal customers.” Employees,…
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Last-Minute Preparations
Painting, mowing, dusting, tuning skis, flushing out the sewage treatment plant. . . From one end of the country to the other,…
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OITAF-NACS: Innovation and Pragmatism
About 65 persons attended the ninth symposium of the International Organization for Transportation by Rope, North American Continental Section (OITAF-NACS for short)…
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Industry Reports
Apollo Bows Out of Vail Apollo Ski Partners plans to convert its Class A shares to common shares and to distribute its…
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Just the Facts, Ma’am
Along with all the steps areas take at this time of year to make sure things go right, it’s time to be…
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Construction Site
Stowe, Vermont After years of preparation and planning, the expansion of Stowe is underway. Eventually this $250 million project will transform the…
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Look Ma, No Hands
by Seth Masia Huge retail operations like Wal-Mart are gearing up to put radio frequency chips in every price tag and package…
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The Look of the Future
by Ken Castle “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” —-Ralph Waldo Emerson “Consistency is the last refuge of the…
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Terrain Parks Grow Up
by Katie Bailey Beginners—they used to be the bane of terrain parks: Clueless kids rolling over 60-foot tabletops, rookies traversing across landing…
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Minority Report
Ethnic marketing is a bit like the weather: Lots of people talk about, but nobody does anything about it. Well, not exactly.…
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NSAA Chairman David Crowley Interview
An interview with Rick Kahl David Crowley, president of Wachusett Mountain, Mass., and, as of last May, National Ski Areas Association (NSAA)…
