SAM Coverage
Resort Development
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Swap: Three Wilderness Parcels For Highway Frontage
In July of 1991, the Purgatory-Durango Ski Resort in Colorado exchanged three isolated parcels of pristine mountain land with a total size 810 acres…
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Consultant’s Corner
We all learned to be negotiators. It may have been as a child trading marbles in the school yard or as a teenager bent…
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Growth Trends– Going Both Ways At Once
During the 1980’s, the buzz phrase in the ski industry was the “flat market.” If ski resort operators’ enthusiasm for a national advertising campaign…
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Mountain To Rise From Ashes
Based on reporting by Gary Minich in the Decatur Herald & Review Macon County in Illinois is proud to be heartland corn country, and…
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Capacity
One key to building a successful ski area is to achieve to optimum balance between slope capacity, lift capacity, utilization and lift ticket prices.…
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Night Into Day
In the Midwest, skiers think nothing of a two-hour drive to the ski slopes for three or four hours of skiing at night. In…
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New Developments
Is New Development Dead . . . Or Dormant? Major new ski resorts don’t exactly sprout like mushrooms these days. So, it is a…
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Snow Simulator
In this age of sophisticated snowmaking systems, area operators often forget that large quantities of snow are lost due to poor trail design as…
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Picking An Area
How does the skier, who is fortunate enough to have several ski areas from which to choose, make the final decision on where to…
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Master Planning Explained
The illustration on the cover of this issue of Ski Area Management is a graphic interpretation of Sno-engineering’s approach to the Master Planning process.…
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Planning Your Way Through Expansion
Construction efficiency at Copper Mountain in Frisco, Colorado, is probably the virtuoso act of the ski industry. It took just 13 months of construction…
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Survey By Balloon
When the owner of a ski area turns a hobby into an effective technique for speeding up the growh of his area, hundreds can…
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Trail Design– The Wind Factor
In building a ski trail, care must be given to planning for maximum snow retention. And to insure the snow falls where it is…
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Building For The Beginner
Every time a non-skier arrives at your ski area he represents a potential (1) student, (2) food and beverage purchaser, (3) equipment renter/purchaser and…
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Planning For Weather Factors
Today the man who signs contracts for construction of million-dollar facilities in the mountains is not as rare a critter as he once was.…
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How To Pick A Lighting System
Many ski areas have approached the problem of slope lighting by putting up a light. If it wasn’t sufficient, they added another. And if…
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Bousquet Is Where Lighting All Began
When Clarence Bousquet hooked up a few strings of incandescent light bulbs over the Russell Slope at his combination farm and ski area in…
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Development– The Case For The Consultant
The wise and reasonable men in the ski industry wouldn’t let the guy next door perform a frontal lobotomy just because he’s watched “Ben…