In This Issue
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Energy
At least 15 years ago, the United States and the world entered into an energy famine which is expected to last until…
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Energy To Run Our Areas
The heavy snows that blanketed many of the nation’s ski areas this winter—normally cause for celebration—have brought new anxieties to owners and…
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Grips
Coming to grips with GRIPS — The start of a continuing study of grip technology, including Part One of an inventory of…
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Ski Area Rip-Off
How much potential ski area income is lost annually through customer and employee theft? How much is lost from internal embezzling? From…
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Pipe Wall Thickness
with Application Engineering Staff, Ratnik Industries Pipe Friction Loss Theory Pipe friction loss is a large design factor influencing performance of a…
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What A Snowmaking Year
Ed Note: If ever there was a year for snowmaking to be center stage and show its stuff, 1976-77 was it! In…
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Reseeding & Rehabilitating
A slope seeding project at Utah’s Park West Ski Resort served a dual rehabilitation purpose: for the barren slopes and for the…
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Jay Price
NSAA’s next president will be Jay Price, who heads a small but energetic ski area in what was once California gold rush…
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Issues
The model legislation program One of the basic approaches being taken by NSAA in its pursuit of legislative relief for ski areas…
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New Products
Myers Electric Products is manufacturing a line of power outlets designed to match snow machine electrical requirements. All units are one-piece construction,…
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Speak Out
Sometimes it takes adversity to bring out the true colors, and if the past winter’s snow drought in the West is any…
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Report
There is a tale about one Vermont ski area that did such an unexpected volume of business in February that they ran…
