In This Issue
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The Art of the Park
This year’s trends in terrain parks are all about catering to beginners and keeping it simple. Where there is pride, there is…
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Derailed
Freestylers are going back to nature with their rails and hits. Before terrain parks, pipe crews, $90,000 Zaugg groomers and the Winter…
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French Fries to Go, Please
As resorts across the continent get serious about the environment, what role can biodiesel play in daily operations? Four years ago, a…
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Fan Guns-In the East?
When Peak Resorts purchased an eastern resort, the company decided to bring its successful Midwest snowmaking operations in. Did it work? Last…
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Construction Site :: November 2006
Resorts were busy this summer installing lifts, expanding terrain, and sprucing up base areas. Breckenridge, ColoradoBreck’s new Leitner Poma 8-passenger gondola is…
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A Question of Balance
Which is more important to an area’s operations: building real estate or improving the mountain product? It depends. By the mid-1950s, Sugar…
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Speak Out :: November 2006
Joel Bourassa, Operations Manager of Tenney Mountain Resort, Plymouth, N.H., implores us to take on “A Snowmaking Challenge.” SAM talks differing strategies…
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Industry Reports :: November 2006
Vail Arsonits Plead Guilty… Norquay Sold… New Owner for Snow Ridge… New SmartStyle… Hemlock Reopens… Powder Ridge Closes… Obit… People… Supplier People……
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Slats Goes Private
There’s money to be made in them thar hills. “Ford’s at $6,” said Slats, waving his Corona toward the stock ticker running…
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The Resort Builders
Longtime ski journalist and former SAM editor John Fry has recently published “The Story of Modern Skiing,” a history of the sport…
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The New PR Paradigm
Areas are adding tools-and dedicated employees-to increase guest communications via the web. Selling, informing, booking, motivating, entertaining—you name it—ski areas are doing…
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Mountain Spy :: November 2006
SAM goes undercover to learn about season pass options for the recent college grad. The Question: Hi, I’m just out of college…
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True Lies
As technology and the Web give customers greater access to weather conditions, snow reporters learn to both entertain and inform. It was…
