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  • Free Taos; Taos Replies

    Two sides of the Taos snowboarding ban. One from Jack Wilson, a sponsored rider, and the other from Mickey Blake, GM of Taos Ski…

  • The Good and the Ugly: Two Sides of the Same Circumstances

    A staff report introduces the flap resulting from poor snow in Utah forcing a change in venue for World Cup opening races from Park…

  • Is Racing Coming Back?

    What a variety of resorts have been doing to support a seeming resurgence in the interest in citizen racing, NASTAR, etc.

  • The End Page

    The most expensive millennium package at Sheraton Tamarron Resort in Durango, Colo.; French lift ingenuity; No liquor on lifts; Brighton Has Fun in Utah,…

  • Blue Pages

    Weather: El Ninos and Las Ninas spelled Los Awful season; USOC–Humorless in Colorado Springs re: Brighton, Utah’s billboard campaign; An “Uphill Battle” Against a…

  • SAM Idea Files

    Recycling old wire rope for use in guardrails at Mountain High, Calif; Old chair lift seats and a snowmobile trailer make a parking lot…

  • Construction Site

    Lifts, snowmaking and construction at Mountain High, Calif., Gunstock, N.H., Sun Valley, Idaho, Cascade Mountain, Wis., Alta, Utah and Belleayre Mountain, N.Y.

  • To the Editor

    Two letters about environment: One about the sound pollution of music blaring from loudspeakers on the slopes (responding to John Fry’s Speak-Out in Nov.…

  • Seth Says: Slats Greets the New Millennium

    That infamous curmudgeon, Slats Grabski, pontificates on how nothing’s changed, really, in 50 years. A timely read for the start of a new millennium.

  • Passing the Torch

    First-hand advice from a family business planning strategist on transfering ownership and control of a family-owned business. The article goes over important steps to…