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Performance, Demos, and Backcountry Fuel Growth in Rentals
SAM Magazine—Woodbury, Conn., Jan. 12, 2016—Performance, demo, and backcountry rentals are helping to fuel growth in rental overall, according to a recent survey conducted…
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Early Season Skier Visits Up in Colorado
SAM Magazine—Denver, Jan. 12, 2016—According to Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA), total skier visits at its 21 member resorts through Dec. 31 were up…
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Record Set: World’s Largest Lesson a Success
SAM Magazine—Dover, Vt., Jan. 11, 2015—On Friday, Jan. 8, at 10 a.m., school was in session at more than 160 resorts from New Jersey…
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Summer Ops Camp Goes to Park City in 2016!
SAM Magazine—Park City, Utah, Jan. 6, 2015—SAM’s seventh annual Summer Ops Camp, a hands-on educational, networking, and in-park demo event, will head to Park…
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Clear Skies Bring Blizzard-like Conditions Across Eastern and Central U.S.
SAM Magazine—Dover, Vt., Jan. 6, 2015—For those still waiting to see snow in the East, here’s a message from earlier this week: “Jiminy Peak…
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U.S. Forest Service Sets Final Water Rights Rule
SAM Magazine—Denver, Colo., Jan. 6, 2016—A 2011 proposal by the U.S. Forest Service to require ski resorts to transfer water rights to the federal…
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Empty Chair Falls From Lift at Heavenly
SAM Magazine—South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Jan. 6, 2016—A carrier traveling on the downhill side of Heavenly Mountain Resort’s North Bowl chairlift detached from the…
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Mother Nature Played Santa, Scrooge Over Christmas Holidays
SAM Magazine—Dover, Vt., Jan. 6, 2016—It was a tale of two sides. One side was bountiful with business up and deep snow. The other…
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Drone use at our area is
* a way for our guests to produce their own content * how we create some cool marketing videos * a PR challenge due…
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Stein Eriksen, Patriarch of Modern Skiing, Dies at 88
SAM Magazine—Park City, Utah, Dec. 28, 2015—Stein Eriksen, the legendary alpine skier often credited as a founder of modern skiing, died on Sunday, Dec.…
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Bookings Lagging at Western Resorts Despite Snow
Photo credit: Park City Mountain. SAM Magazine—Denver, Colo., Dec. 23, 2015—Despite prolific snowfall since the beginning of November at western resorts, the most recent…
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SIA to Shift Snow Show Date, Format in December 2017
SAM Magazine—Washington, D.C., Dec. 23, 2015—SnowSports Industries America (SIA) is reinventing the SIA Snow Show with an updated format, and shifting it nearly two…
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Morrison to Direct Ski Operations at Otsego Club & Resort
SAM Magazine—Gaylord, Mich., Dec. 23, 2015—Otsego Club & Resort has appointed Jeff Morrison as its new director of ski operations. Morrison’s responsibilities include overseeing…
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Blackcomb to Host National Freestyle Training Center
SAM Magazine—Whistler, B.C., Dec. 23, 2015—Blackcomb has signed an agreement with the Whistler Blackcomb Freestyle Ski Club (WBFSC) and the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association…
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Weather Makes Eastern Areas Get Creative
SAM Magazine—Dover, Vt., Dec. 22, 2015—With the reality of this mild start to the winter in much of the eastern half of the continent…
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Park City Ski Patrollers Vote to Unionize
SAM Magazine—Park City, Utah, Dec. 16, 2015—By a narrow margin, ski patrollers at Park City voted on Monday to unionize. The preliminary tally was…
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Special Report: Can Resorts Make Lemonade Out of a Weather Lemon?
SAM Magazine—Dover, Vt., Dec. 16, 2015—It’s no secret that snow has been a scarce commodity everywhere but out West so far this winter—a far…
