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SAM · The Digital Edition

Summer 1978

Profile In Profits

First in a series of articles on areas of all types which share one common characteristic: profitability

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12 articles

In This Issue

  • Off-Season Maintenance

    When we were young and in our prime, a fantastic job we did for you. Now as we are getting older, it…

  • Head Trips

    Head Trips

    Inner Skier, Outer Limits, Woman’s Way, Center Skiing, Yoga Skiing — whatever these new tags mean to the theorists who invented them,…

  • How Big The Market?

    How Big The Market?

    How big is our market? Who are our best customers? What are their spnding patterns? What motivates them? How can we attract…

  • Photogate

    Photogate

    There were no break-ins or gaps of missing tape, but the analogy was perfectly clear: Colorado’s “Photogate” of last season led to…

  • Chairlift Deropements

    Chairlift Deropements

    “. . . On both hold-down and support sheaves, suitable devices shall be installed and maintained that will stop the lift in…

  • Snow Loads

    Snow Loads

    Some years ago, I was having lunch with a lawyer friend who specializes in ski area liability work. I remarked that I…

  • Profile In Profits

    Profile In Profits

    First in a series of articles on areas of all types which share one common characteristic: profitability Following the 1974-75 ski season,…

  • Issues

    (This report is based on, and in part extracted from, recent reports by Attorney David L. Cleary, NSAA Special Counsel.)

  • Letters

    Sir:

  • Newspapers

    With all the current emphasis on reaching non-skiers and getting them to take up the sport, newspapers are an obviously powerful medium…

  • Speak Out

    By now you should have received your annual economic survey questionnaire. Let’s not pussyfoot: there are really only three possible reasons for…

  • Report

    Report

    It certainly wasn’t the unwelcome snow, and it certainly wasn’t the non-existent golf and tennis. But whatever it was, the 1978 NSAA…

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