SAM Coverage
Ski Area Profiles
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Playing With the Big Boys
Cypress, a Vancouver day area, will receive worldwide publicity as a key site for the 2010 Games-which will also help underwrite a much needed…
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Industry Report
Steamboat Ownership Dispute Continues. Snow Monsters Hit the Airwaves. Vail and Intrawest Split on Keystone. Three Resorts on the Block? Helmet Bill for Mass?…
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Not Just Another Pretty Face
Mount Shasta, Calif., keeps breaking skier visit numbers. This profile of the operation tries to shed some light on the reason for its success.
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Little Big Mountain
Intrawest, with a 50 percent stake in Blue Mountain, Ont., sees the resort as having very promising growth potential. This article describes the resort’s…
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It Really Does Take a Village
This story about the local effort to save Burke Mountain, Vt., shows how Yankee practicality and community spirit helped keep the tiny mountain open…
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Innovation in the Alps
Two family-owned ski areas in Switzerland have been on the cutting edge of trends and technology since 1962.This profile is a report on how…
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Insights From 116 Areas Skied Last Season
Jerry writes about fullfilling his dream of skiing every major resort in North America. He provides some insights on management and how to evaluate…
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Footloose And Debt Free
A SAM “Profile in Profit,” Ski Apache, N.M., has the highest lift capacity in the state, over 200,000 annual skier visits and operates in…
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A Mouse That Roars
With only 100 acres of skiing, Bears Town, South Korea, did 400,000 skier visits last year. A high-density, high-tech resort, Bears Town has an…
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Kirkwood–The Turnaround Kid
The story of how this Lake Tahoe resort, Kirkwood, rose from the ashes with an infusion of money and vision, becoming a hot real…
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Valbois Venture Fizzles
Examination of the reasons behind the Chapter 7 of Valbois, the planned $120 million, four-season Idaho resort.
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As Perfect As Possible
The story of how the father-and-son team of Clyde and Chip Perfect got into the ski business. The Perfects, learning the ski business as…
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58 Years Young: The New Caberfae Ski Area.
Caberfae, Mich., never died–it just faded away temporarily. Now, reborn and revitalized with new peaks, trails, lifts and amenities, this Michigan area is again…
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A Little Giant Turns Thirty
An area profile of Ski Roundtop of Pennsylvania and its parent company, Snow Time, which now operates three mountains, including Ski Windham, N.Y., and…
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Whale Of A Deal
A return to Ascutney ski area two years after the Plausteiner family bought the Vermont area out of bankruptcy for $1.1 million. Includes color…
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New Trails In An Old Setting
Great Glen Trails at Mt. Washington opened last winter, offering a year-round recreational feast for skiers and bikers.
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Requiem For A Small Area
King Ridge, N.H., went tragically out of existence. Was it necessary? This article tells the story of the failure of yet another ski area.
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Two Little Areas That Could
Both Black Mountain, Maine, and the ski hill at Lake City, Colo., would have closed down if the citizens and the ski industry had…