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SAM · The Digital Edition

Summer 1972

Equipment

Hedco Mark II Hedco’s new totally electric Mark II airless snowmaking machine uses the same “nucleation” principle as the H-2d. At 200 gpm, a lower-capacity system than the H-2d (and…

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12 articles

In This Issue

  • How The Kid Master Of The Intercorporate

    How The Kid Master Of The Intercorporate

    “Frankly,” the girl on the phone said, “the skiing here today is terrible.” “Hmmm?” I said, surprised; I was making a routine…

  • Eyeballing Your Liftline

    Eyeballing Your Liftline

    The accuracy of the original survey of a liftline is extremely important as the profile plotted from the survey forms the basis…

  • The Great Ski Rip-Off– Ski Thieves

    The Great Ski Rip-Off– Ski Thieves

    In an age where giant airliners are pirated with breathless ease it is hardly surprising that skis have become a target for…

  • Building For The Beginner

    Building For The Beginner

    Every time a non-skier arrives at your ski area he represents a potential (1) student, (2) food and beverage purchaser, (3) equipment…

  • Focus On Planning At NSAA Meeting

    Focus On Planning At NSAA Meeting

    Planning. That’s what it’s all about. Planning your trails. Planning your lifts. Planning your base facilities. Planning. If there was a single…

  • California Looks At Its Lifts

    California Looks At Its Lifts

    Journalist C. Michael Stockstill, while serving as an intern with the California State Assembly, was assigned by the Assembly Rules Committee to…

  • Lift Unloading– Skier Ability Dictates

    Lift Unloading– Skier Ability Dictates

    Bottlenecks in the lift loading area (see “Learn the Rules of Lift-Off,” Spring SAM) are not the only problem standing in the…

  • Speak Out

    We’ve all seen it coming. John Q. Skier, that once happy-go-lucky, mountain-loving jock whose only gripe was that the lifts never opened…

  • Marketing

    Air the message If you or your advertising agency are victims of habit, there’s a good chance that you’ll allocate less than…

  • NSAA News

    Sun Valley: A look back The 10th Annual NSAA Convention and Trade Show at Sun Valley, reports Executive Director Dick Garis, was…

  • Equipment

    Equipment

    Hedco Mark II Hedco’s new totally electric Mark II airless snowmaking machine uses the same “nucleation” principle as the H-2d. At 200…

  • Report

    Report

    The environmental imperative has sparked an urgent need for a new land ethic in this country, and the ski area operator must…

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