SAM Coverage
Miscellaneous
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Blue Pages
Soliciting Kids (Children’s ONline Privacy Protection ACT); Rethinking Wind Chill (new formula in offing?); The Numbers Game (Booth Creek, Vail, Intrawest and ASC quarterly…
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The End Page
The Ultimate White Wedding (vows exchanged at Loveland, Colo.); Boys Will Be Girls (Dress-up day at Mt. Rose, Nev. for a discounted ticket; You…
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Idea Files
Padded J-bars at Ski LIberty, Pa.; motor room awnings at Crystal Mountain, Mich.; portable electric generator for snowmaking on x-c trails at Mansfield Outdoor…
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Blue Pages
New Scene for Ski Media with demise of Mountain Sports & Living (Snow Country) and addition of Elevation, Freeskier and Ski’s signing of John…
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The End Page
Vital Statistics from NSGA about women and an American Demographics sidebar on insect repellent; Poorly placed signs at or near ski areas.
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Industry Reports, multiple titles
Mountain Creek Lodge Destroyed by Fire; Whitetail Purchase Completed; Lookout Pass Sold; Vail Expansion to Open this Season; Major New Sponsorships for Skiing; Doe…
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Letters
A letter from Dick Tillson, president of Ski Hawaii, on our “Helicopter Rescue Options” story in September, 1999, and Alfred Auer whose issue of…
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Idea Files
Snowmobile flasher on sleds at Seven Springs, Pa.; a plug saver for stop gate connections at Rocking Horse Ranch, N.Y. and using hay bales…
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Blue Pages
Skiing and Clinton’s Enviro Legacy (Roadless Initiative); Moshe Alamaro and His Urban Iceberg (making snow mounds for New England water sources); K2 Launches Mod…
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End Page
Rotating wire rop spool with suspended ATV; leveling a lift tower with various-length bolts; Snowmaking web page by a proud father; Funny signs at…
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Snow Sport Camps
This article reports on the gaining popularity of sports camps and how some resorts are cashing in on the trend. Most camps are independently…
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Blue Pages
2006 Olympics to Italy; Shakeout at Mountain Creek; Nordic World Pledges Renewal; Seven Springs Sale is Derailed; It’s Helmets Again in N.J.; NSGA Finds…
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End Page
Dave Barry’s stunt to cover Vail Resorts’ Adam Aron’s car with magnets to benefit the Summit Foundation outside the annual hockey classic; Ad Age…
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Fall Consumer Show Schedule
This is a list of ski shows and a source of contact names and phone numbers of contacts for those shows.
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Publisher’s Memo
“NSAA’s San Francisco Triumph” describes the national convention and the OITAF Congress as seemles and smoothly run (more on page 22, same issue); “The…
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Industry Reports
Vail wins in court again; Death at SLC show; ASC finds investor; La Nina persists; RCR Purchases Mont-Sainte-Anne; Vans acquires High Cascade Snowboard Camp;…
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Construction Site
Road, lift and lodge construction are featured in this installment of Construction Site. Areas annoted are Sugar Bowl, Calif., Gunstock, N.H., Park City, Utah,…
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SAM Idea Files
This issue features:1) painting high-visibilty rings around lift towers where ski-tip deflectors start blocking handholds: Timberline, W.V. 2) Adding a lifting fork on an…