SAM Coverage
Lifts
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Do You Need An Auxiliary Engine?
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Who’s Running Your Lifts?
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Speak Out :: July 2017
Lift Mechanics: A Developing Dilemma As an industry, we have grown dramatically from our early days in the 1930s. Our uphill infrastructure has evolved…
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Getting With The Program
All chairlift mechanics in Ontario must be certified through rigorous training and testing, and there are no exceptions. How’s that working out? In the…
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Australian Company to Purchase Saddleback, Maine
SAM Magazine—Portland, Maine, June 28, 2017—At a press conference today in Portland, another new suitor for Maine’s shuttered Saddleback Mountain Resort came forward and…
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Ski Vermont Celebrates Comeback Season
SAM Magazine—Killington, Vt., June 15, 2017—After a challenging 2015-16 season, Vermont’s alpine and Nordic ski areas came back to tally 3,922,970 visits, the Vermont…
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Cutter’s Camp 2017 — East & West Recap
CUTTER’S CAMP 2017— MOUNT SNOW More than 70 terrain park builders and industry experts gathered for Cutter’s Camp Fall Refresher at Mount Snow, Vt.,…
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Emerald Expositions Acquires Snow Show from SIA
SAM Magazine—San Juan Capistrano, Calif., May 24, 2017—Emerald Expositions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerald Expositions Events, Inc., producer of business-to-business trade shows…
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OZRE, EPR, and CNL Complete $830 Million Resort and Attractions Sale
SAM Magazine—Kansas City, Mo., April 6, 2017—Och-Ziff Real Estate, EPR Properties, and CNL have completed the sale of CNL’s ski area and attractions portfolios.…
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Occupancy Flat, Revenues Up In Western Mountain Destinations
SAM Magazine—Denver, March 20, 2017—With less than a month remaining in the winter 2016-17 booking season, overall aggregated occupancy for 19 western mountain resorts…
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Lifts 2016: Moving Up
This year saw an uptick in resort lift installations and upgrades, all aimed at enhancing the guest experience. Resorts continued to install new lifts…
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Outside Online Article Questions Aging Lift Infrastructure
SAM Magazine—Denver, Oct. 6, 2016—In the aftermath of a chairlift incident in West Virginia last February, Outside Magazine’s website has cast a skeptical eye…
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Construction Site : September 2016
New and upgraded lifts highlight improvements at resorts this summer. Grand Targhee Resort, WV A new fixed-grip Doppelmayr quad is replacing the old 1974…
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How Good Are Your Lift Mechanics?
Formal training for lift mechanics is becoming an urgent topic due to increased public concern over recent lift failures. A spate of lift…
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Construction Site
A look at projects ranging from major expansions and overhauls to base-area updates and replacements. Cascade Mountain, WI Cascade Mountain has begun the first…
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2016 RMLA Spring Conference and Trade Show
More than 500 lift mechanics, operations staff, managers, suppliers, and instructors attended the 45th annual Rocky Mountain Lift Association (RMLA) Spring Conference May 2-5…
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2016 RMLA Spring Conference and Trade Show
More than 500 lift mechanics, operations staff, managers, suppliers, and instructors attended the 45th annual Rocky Mountain Lift Association (RMLA) Spring Conference May 2-5…
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To Build or Not to Build
With hundreds, if not thousands, of old lifts running across North America, many managers are asking themselves, “Should I repair or replace these older…