SAM Coverage
Snowmaking
-
Technology
Looking back, planning ahead The 1971-72 ski season was an unusual one for nearly all North American ski areas. Lack of natural snow early…
-
Snowmaking To Highligh Midwinter Meet
The NSAA Midwinter Meeting has always been an excuse to play a little mid-season hookey, see old friends, talk out common problems and try…
-
How To Measure Your System’s Efficiency
In any discussion on snowmaking, the inevitable question always arises: airless or conventional? Also, where snowmaking expansion or modification is required, should the design…
-
Snowmaking Bids
Only a few years ago, decisions about snowmaking were relatively simple. You either made snow or you didn’t. Now the situation has become much…
-
It Takes More Than Snow
Someone once said, “A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.” The admonition might have been equally well addressed to the ski business,…
-
Letters
There are two typographical errors in “How to Analyze Your Snowmaking Dollar” (April, 1971) that I would like to bring to your attention.
-
Analyze Your Snowmaking Equipment
Snowmaking has attracted more attention during the past year than any other phase of ski area development. This interest is related to many things:…
-
Efficient Snowmaker Makes Money-Stowe
At many ski areas making snow, the fact that the snow is being made and the trails and slopes are skiable is all management…
-
Snowmakers Ice Sugar Mountain
A Southern ski area is only as good as its snowmaking system, so when Dr. Tom Brigham—who easily deserves the epithet, the Father of…
-
Silent Snowmakers Save New York Area
Dutchess ski area in Beacon, N. Y., has eliminated snowmaking noise with three “Whisperized” Spiro-Flo air compressors. The Whisperized compressors, developed by Ingersoll-Rand Co.,…
-
Snowmaking– H2o, Air, P.S.I., 32f. Minus
In learning how to make snow, Larchmont Engineering has defied an old and established rule: they did something about the weather. This past winter…