In This Issue
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Tennis Overkill?
John Hitchcock analyzes the tennis boom at eastern ski areas and finds it may be too much.
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Art And Music
Barbara Wicks describes the summer arts programs at Snowbird.
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1977 Directory Of Products And Suppliers
A vital, crosstabulated listing that will be referred to constantly during the year.
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Speak Out
Bill Whitney We record with sadness the recent death of Bill Whitney, the proprietor for 33 years of Whitney’s in Jackson, N.H.…
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Wet Bulb Dry Bulb
No doubt you’ve heard other area operators and suppliers profess that they “made snow at 36, 38 or 40 degrees.” But we…
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NSAA Newsletter
Off and Running With close to 1,100 ski areas in 38 states off and running for the season, each and every area…
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Report
John Bower, Nordic Director for the U.S. Ski Team, announced recently that the Waterville Valley Ski Touring center had been designated as…
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Public Funds & Private Sector—II
The Fall issue of SAM carried an article by William Berry entitled, “Public Funds and the Private Sector.” Among other things, it…
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New Products
Disc Golf is available to ski areas through Seasons of Leisure, Inc., 2506 Northland Drive, Mendota Heights, MN. It is based on…
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Lifts 1976
New lift construction in 1976 was down—down to 78, the lowest since 1957 when 77 were installed. To match the number of…
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Wire Rope Inspection
In the Fall issue of SAM, we presented some thoughts on the inspection of wire rope by Howard Anderson, Engineering Coordinator of…
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Conventions
Before Thanksgiving and after Easter — that’s down time. Faced with at least seven months of such bleakness, many Midwestern ski areas…
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Slide Is The Way To Ride
“What it’s like, very frankly, is having two ski seasons a year,” Thaddeus Thorne commented happily. Thorne, president of the Mt. Attitash…
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Summer
Why should anyone go to a ski area in the summer? After all, the countryside abounds in attractions, and cities are packed…
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1975-76 Economic Survey
Data from a record response of 115 ski areas shows that the ski industry continues to gain in its battle for profitability.…
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Fact Sheet
A vital document for the ski writer is an area’s fact sheet. What exactly should it contain? To be most useful to…
