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Lift Maintenance
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Mt. Rose Raises Minimum Wage, Requires Vaccinations
SAM Magazine—Reno, Nev., Sept. 13, 2021—Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe has raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour for all positions that were previously…
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Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Now Palisades Tahoe
SAM Magazine—Olympic Valley, Calif., Sept. 13, 2021—After a year of in-depth research and discovery, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows has changed its name to Palisades Tahoe,…
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Canada Eases Travel Restrictions, Resorts Prepare
SAM Magazine—Kelowna, B.C., Sept. 9, 2021—Canada’s federal government relaxed travel restrictions for fully-vaccinated, non-essential travelers this week, a promising development for destination market resorts. Non-essential…
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Jay Gamble Named Wintergreen GM
SAM Magazine—Wintergreen, Va., Sept. 9, 2021—Jay Gamble has been named general manager of Wintergreen Resort in Virginia. Gamble will transition from Ragged Mountain, N.H., where he has served as general manager…
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Snowbound Festivals Postponed to 2022
SAM Magazine—Park City, Utah, Sept. 8, 2021—Snowsports Industries America (SIA) has postponed the 2021 Denver and Boston Snowbound Festivals until November 2022 due to…
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Wear, Why, and How
Proper alignment and lubrication will reduce wear and increase the life of parts and components. In ski area maintenance, the things that break…
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Indy Pass Adds Waterville Valley and Saddleback
SAM Magazine—Portland, Ore., Feb. 23, 2021—Waterville Valley Resort, N.H., and Saddleback Mountain, Maine, are joining the Indy Pass through the end of the current…
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TGR, Indy Pass Film to Highlight Independent Resorts
SAM Magazine—Jackson, Wyo., Feb. 18, 2021—Teton Gravity Research (TGR) and the Indy Pass will explore the spirit of independent ski and snowboard areas around…
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Highway West Vacations to Manage King Pine Ski Area
SAM Magazine—East Madison, N.H., Jan. 29, 2021—Highway West Vacations will be providing full property management for New Hampshire’s King Pine Ski Area, Purity Spring…
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Bend, Don’t Break: Resilient Leadership Training Reopens
SAM Magazine—Natick, Mass., Jan. 28, 2021—Given the challenges the people in our industry are experiencing right now—and the need for resilience is greater than…
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Patrol Covid Outbreak Temporarily Shutters Hunter Mountain
SAM Magazine—Hunter, N.Y., Jan. 6, 2021—Hunter Mountain was compelled to close Tuesday, Jan. 5, after “a number of ski patrollers excluded out of work…
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Covid Case Trends Turned More Favorable in December
Coronavirus cases were flat or down in 46 states and Washington, D.C., as the Christmas holiday week began, according to the latest tracking report…
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Ontario Puts Ski Season on Hold
SAM Magazine—Collingwood, Ont., Dec. 23, 2020—The province of Ontario has imposed a 28-day shutdown of much of the province beginning Dec. 26 to curtail…
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Drive-in Staff Orientation at Sunday River
SAM Magazine—Newry, Maine, Nov. 20, 2020—Resorts have had to get creative with their formerly indoor, packed-room staff orientations. Sunday River, Maine, has gone the…
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Summer Ended on Positive Note for Western Destinations
SAM Magazine—Bradenton, Fla., Nov. 18, 2020—Western mountain resorts enjoyed a slight 1.3 percent bump up in year-over-year occupancy in October compared to October 2019,…
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Sun Valley, Smugglers’ Notch Top SKI’s Annual Resort Rankings
SAM Magazine—November 2, 2020, Boulder, Colo.—SKI released its annual resort guide, which ranks the best 50 resorts across North America based on its 2020 reader…
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POWDR Resorts Detail Parking Reservation Processes
SAM Magazine—Snowbird, Utah, Oct. 30, 2020—Most POWDR-owned resorts will manage visitation this winter using a parking reservations system that requires visitors arriving in personal…
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Jay Peak Joins Indy Pass
SAM Magazine—Portland, Ore., Oct. 19, 2020—The Indy Pass has added Jay Peak in Vermont to its alliance of independent ski areas, bringing alliance membership…