SAM Coverage
Resort Development
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Making A Disabled Program Work
Putting handicapped people on skis requires planning and cooperation from the entire ski area staff.
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Good Mountain, Good Value– Loon Mountain
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Debating Development– Lolo Peak
Lolo Pak looks like an ideal spot for a ski resort. But not so fast! All sides are weighting the evidence.
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From The Mountain– Vision Of A Visionary
The man who set the course of ski area building predicts the best of all worlds-skiing.
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Grand Scale Redevelopment
How can $10 million worth of goodies be squeezed into a space smaller than a city block? They are doing it at Aspen.
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Contrarian Development Approach
At Shawnee, real estate came first, but the mountain and skiing proved to be a profit center on its own.
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Defusing Development
A master of win-win negotiating reveals his secrets and suggests ways to break the costly deadlocks that delay and fragment the ski area planning…
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Beach Front Planning/Slope Development
The effective circulation of skiers and cars is the key to using land profitably in creating effective circulation of skiers and cars is the…
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Can You Clone Gray Rocks?
A perennial success, a star in the ski resort galaxy and the mountain is all of 600 feet high. The secret revealed by Janet…
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Scale Model Snow Control
The effects of slope modification can be seen in dramatic thtree dimensions with this new technique, according to brian Hayter.
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Purpa And Power
Ski areas may not only be able to save money by generating their own power, they may be able to make money as well.…
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Ski France– Growth And Innovation
Expansion has come in layers, but each one has brought new problems and solutions according to H. Peter Wingle.
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Thinking About Bases
Too often the facilities at the bottom of a mountain just grow. There needs to be planning for skiers’ coming and going say Terry…
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A $40 Million Decision In Five Steps
Vail’s huge expansion program was the result of extensive study writes Bob Parker. The steps involved are useful for expansion of any size.
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Developing An Urban Ski Facility
A primer on how to build a ski area with an update on the cost parameters by Jim Branch.
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Controlling The Future
The troubles ski areas face in the planning phases can be solved through rational problem solving. Abbie Roses explains how one firm is bringing…