SAM Coverage
Author: Olivia
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Your Chairlift Purchase
Veteran lift engineer, Ed Immergluck, pulls together a systematic way for any area to go about selecting the right lift.
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Aging Lifts
A companion piece to the one above, Jan Leonard shows you how to to about making the decision between rebuilding, relocating and replacing your…
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Problem Picker
SAM’s Technical Editor, Nils Ericksen, describes the lift maintenance rig he designed and put together at Okemo.
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Off-Season Maintenance
The second of Smitty’s useful, idea-filled columns on all facets of maintenance.
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Head Trips
Ski writer Abby Rand describes some of the Inner Skiing, Centered Skiing and other approaches to teaching-but from the marketing angle for the ski…
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How Big The Market?
Al Greenberg, Editor-in-chief of Skiing Magazine reveals some of the stratling statistics their research has turned up, and discusses some of the implications for…
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Photogate
Ski writer Charlie Meyers follows up on the publicity scandal/crisis that hit the rockies last winter, and draws some conclusions.
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Chairlift Deropements
Philip Berger presents a technical paper on the various design philosophies and the actual devices for detection of deropement.
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Snow Loads
Architect Henrik Bull, whose artices have appeared several times in SAM, says that “A collapsed day lodge could ruin your whole day”.
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Profile In Profits
The first in a series of articles where we put the focus on areas, large and small, which share one common characteristic: their ability…