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Trail Maintenance
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Greening Up
The owner of Elk Mountain, Pa., wanted to create a picture-postcard area. In planting 35,000 evergreen trees, he got even more than that. Long…
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Logging by Air
This past fall, after more than two years of working on the necessary approvals, the management of Marmot Basin Ski Area, Alberta, was ready…
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Construction Site
Wachusett Mountain The architect hired by David and Jeff Crowley to design the base lodge expansion at Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, Mass., says he’s…
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Boot Camp Symposium on Terrain Features
The idea got its start last June in the Swiss Alps, where area personnel from around the world had gathered to exchange information and…
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A Safety Puzzle Solved
One day in 1987, an insurance inspector presented a puzzle to the managers of Sundown, Iowa: replace the wood-slat snow fence nailed to wooden…
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Yo-Yo Winch Grooming
Mt. Norquay near Banff in the Canadian Rockies, has long been famous for its super steep skiing and ferocious moguls. While this has been…
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Compactors Vs.Rollers–The Differences
There was a time in the snow grooming business when rollers made from culverts were the popular implement for smoothing and packing soft snow.…
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1985 Roundup Of Over-Snow Vehicles
Vehicles are looking better all the time. Have you purchased a Class III Vehicle lately? Or, how about a Class I or Class IV?…
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Vehicle Interiors
Remember what it was like driving the snow grooming vehicles of 10 or 15 years ago? During that period, most attachments were towed behind…
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Vehicle Round-Up
Every year sees the industry crossing new thresholds in over-snow vehicles—thresholds of engineering sophistication and design, to say nothing of price. We’re now into…
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Over-Snow Vehicles
The story of over-snow vehicles and their use at ski areas might start with the end of World War II when surplus army tracked…
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Grooming
Over the last 40 years, Mont Tremblant has always been interested in grooming trails so that the surface would be in the best possible…
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Night-Time Cats Of Steamboat
When a skier’s day is over at Steamboat, the maintenance crew’s day has just begun. They’re the night cats of the mountain. The deciding…
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Fertilize Your Snow
Until it runs off the mountain as water, snow is constantly changing. Since we use the term “snow farming” to describe maintenance of snow,…
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Slope Grooming Gets New Look
Sun Valley’s Broadway Face has a circumference of 60 to 70 acres. Its overgrowth of 10-foot trees, with base diameters of three to five…
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Q & A On Grooming
Q. On slope grooming Over the past three years, the ski industry has witnessed the rapid growth of G.L.M. Rental and retail shops had…
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Snowbird Preview
And you thought hydrostatics was only a fancy term tossed around in college physics classes . . . If you’re on hand for the…
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Tooling Up Your Grooming
Unquestionably, grooming helped make the ski season possible last year. The East and the Midwest had sparse snowfalls mixed with rain and the Rockies…