SAM Coverage
Terrain
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Construction Site
Ski areas are spending more time on the beginner experience by creating new rental centers, new terrain and more uphill transportation.
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Cash Cow or Money Pit?
Though it’s difficult to strictly weight the profit or loss on a halfpipe, the promotional value can be priceless.
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Hard Times In the Pipe
Tracks and grousers get banged up in pipe and park work. What can you do about it?
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What’s in Your Park?
This look at the latest and greatest ideas in freestyle elements is more than just a round-up-it’s a contest with prizes at stake.
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Construction Site
It was a busy summer as a new area comes on line and more real estate and new terrain will greet this winter’s guests.
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Construction Site :: March 2006
A look at what areas around the country were up to last summer. Last summer, resorts concentrated on getting people up the hill, giving…
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Cutting it Up
Terrain park designers had their day in the sun when Snowboarder magazine invited the creme de la creme out to Colorado for a park-off.
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Construction Site
In anticipation of a good year, ski resorts all over spent the summer adding and expanding to their terrain and other offerings.
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A High-Tech Way to Measure Snow Depth
With radar, GPS and new software, ski areas can take the guesswork out of grooming and snowmaking.
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Construction Site
The focus is on providing beginners better transportation and terrain, as well as making existing customers a little more comfortable.
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Boot Camp Symposium on Terrain Features
This is an article describing the symposium sponsored by Pisten Bully at Mammoth Mountain, Calif., in November of 2000. There was classroom training as…
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Construction Site
Summer improvement projects at: Park City, Utah; Ski Cooper, Colo.; Camelback, Pa.; Loon Mountain, N.H.; and Lake Louise, Alb.
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Terrain Made For Teaching
Three areas–Jiminy Peak, Mass., Camelback and Seven Springs, Pa.–recently underwent redesigns of beginner terrain. Specific factors that were considered: insulation from general skier traffic,…
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Free Your Mind
Freeriding, the newest evolution of ‘extreme’ for both skiing and snowboarding, is coming to the slopes. With certain accomodations for new events, terrain and…
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Bombing Deep Snow
An examination of the avalanche-control program at Alyeska, Alaska, one of the biggest and most aggressive in North America.
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Making Cat Tracks User-Friendly
Guidelines to make skiers and mountain crews happier with the necessity of cat tracks, making descents easier and safer as well as reducing wear…
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Mountain Mowing
Tom Moriarty of Stratton, Vt., gets the groomer out of the garage in the summer by adding modifications which allow it to mow grass…