SAM Coverage
Ski Area Profiles
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Backyard To The Future
Long ago in this country, there were hundreds of backyard ski slopes where many of us learned to ski. Powder Mills Park, near Rochester,…
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History Of Fan Snowmaking
Adapted for publication by Nils Ericksen, P.E., Technical Editor Around the first of the year, Jim VanderKelen, president of Snow Machines Incorporated, submitted a…
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Asia’s Answer- Part 2
Affluence and burgeoning populations of young people are creating a leisure market in the Pacific Rim countries that resembles the robust 1970’s and 80’s…
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No Snow, But Still They Show
Overlooking a sheep-mown golf course at the edge of an Edinburgh suburb, Scotland’s Hillend Ski Center has been operating for 26 years. Just a…
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The Alta Enigma
Alta, the quaint Utah ski resort with world class stature, is perplexity personified. When ski lift tickets at comparable resorts cost $20, Alta apologetically…
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Bunny Bertram
1908 – 1981 (Editor’s note. Wallace “Bunny” Bertram, one of the six newest members of the National Ski Hall of Fame, died Jan. 29,…
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Butternut Basin
When you have neither the mountains nor the snowmaking, the slopeside lodging nor the sizzling apres ski scene of a Killington or Sugarbush, yet…
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Poma With A Capital P
The Poma lift company is coming to the U.S. with a sales force, engineers and production capacity to manufacture lifts. Prior to its re-entry…
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Blue Mountain– A Hill Made Of Gold
You might think that a ski area with its primary operations plugged into a computer (including point-of-sale outlets and the world’s most advanced snowmaking…
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A Giant For The 1980s
If you were asked to name one ski resort as the biggest in the East, 25 years from now, which one would you select?…
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Ski Roundtop,Pa
A combination of old-fashioned hustle and modern business methods has produced a 17 percent average net income growth through the past six seasons at…
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The Downeast Adventures Of Wendy & Dick
The oldest continuously operating ski hill in the State of Maine, the Camden Snow Bowl, lies on the Ragged Mountain, second highest of seven…
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Boreal Ridge
If car crazy California had a “drive-in” ski area, it would be Boreal Ridge, a success story sitting at the top of the Sierra…
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Joe Wachtel
“You can’t be a desk jockey and operate a successful ski area,” says Joe Wachtel, vice-president of operations at Sundown, Dubuque, Ia. “A manager…
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Heritage Mountain
Editors Note: Nobody could ever accuse ski area planners and builders of thinking small. They are a special breed. They have mostly created their…
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Bill Killebrew Takes Charge
“Assuming it snows,” Bill Killebrew once said, “anyone would have to be a terrible bungler to not make money at Heavenly.” He said that…
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Loveland
Out in the Valley of the Jolly White Giants, where big resorts are king, there lives a little ski area which has few of…
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Profile In Profits
First in a series of articles on areas of all types which share one common characteristic: profitability Following the 1974-75 ski season, Devil’s Head…