SAM Coverage
Lifts
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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 from which…
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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 investigate the…
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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 way of…
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Learn The Rules Of Lift-Off
If your lifts ran on peak days with less than two stops an hour and no missed chairs, T-sticks, platters or J-bars for 15…
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Cabling For Tower Power
While building our fourth chairlift at Mission Ridge this year, the Forest Service asked that three of our 24 towers be erected without clearing…
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And Now…Bull Wheel Loading
For several years now chairlift configurations that permit skiers to unload at the bull wheel of the upper terminal have been in use, and…
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Technology
Innsbruck Diary The second International Congress on Ski Slopes and Trails was held at Innsbruck, Austria, September 29-October 2 this year. Sponsored by the…
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Equipment
The Globe Ticket Company has announced the development of a new lift-ticket issuing machine capable of issuing up to 60 tickets per minute. The…
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Technology
Reviewing the B77.1 Standard While most ski area administrators are aware of the American National Standards Institute’s “Safety Requirements for Aerial Passenger Tramways,” commonly…
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Equipment
Research and Trading Corp. has introduced a self-controlled system designed to lower stranded passengers from a cable or gondola.
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Commissioner Of Uphill Transportation
If you took all the lifts on Aspen Skiing Corp.’s three mountains and strung them end to end, they would stretch 17.7 miles long,…
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Chairlift Seatpads– Heat In-Ouch Out
Since cave days, man has been devising more efficient and comfortable devices to sit on. Those neanderthals sitting on cold rocks in the winter…
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What’s This About Wire Rope Log Books?
The B77.1-1970 Standard (Lift Code) was approved just one year ago and, as with any changes or additions to regulations, the effects are only…
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Report
The condition of Squaw Valley, California’s 26 ski lifts has become the subject of a bitter dispute between the area’s former mountain manager, Hans…
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1970 Lift Construction– Rate Declines
Ski area and lift growth for the past year have shown a marked decline over past years. The number of new ski areas has…
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Letters
In the Spring issue of SKI AREA MANAGEMENT I read “Chairlifts Not The Answer” (see Letters, SAM, Spring 1970, p. 13) by Larry Jump,…
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Technology
The problem of re-uniting skis with skiers evacuated from a skis-off gondola was raised by Steve Lyman of Sugarbush in the Winter 1970 issue.
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New Lifts For North America
EAST LOCATION TYPE MANU. LENGTH VERT. CAP. SPEED Mt. Southington, Southington, Conn. T-Bar Dopplemayr 1200 175 900 590 Powder Hill, Middlefield, Conn. Chair †…