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SAM Coverage

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  • Night-Time Cats Of Steamboat

    Ron Hanna takes us behind the scenes at one of the country’s most unusual and most successful slope maintenance operations. 

  • NSAA Newsletter

    President Bill Norton, reports on some important industry happenings, and on the association’s involvement in them. Cal Conniff adds some opinion. 

  • Sherman Adams

    L. Dana Gatlin, prominent Boston ski writer, interviews “The Govener” at his loon Mt. area. A lot of food for thought from this pithy…

  • Preventative Maintenance

    Management consultant Paul Tomlingson shows how management should re-evaluate its preventive maintence proedures to attain maximum efficiency. 

  • Teaching Kids

    SAM asked Karl pfeiffer, one of the ski world’s most innovative and influential ski teachers, to review an important new book on teaching youngsters…

  • Area Communications

    Pat Steiner takes the reader behind the communications scene at stowe, Vt, to examine the use of a sophisticated PAsystem by a major area.

  • Radio Advertising

    Advertising executive, Bob Launey, gives a practical run-down on what you need to know to make your radio advertising build buisness for you-economically. 

  • The Great Stock Raid

    Charlie Meyers tells how “The good good guys from vail beat the bad guys from Texas.” 

  • High Cost Of Capital Vs The Risks

    Ted Farwell presents another penetrating study of the economics of our industry. An important article. 

  • The Christie Saga

    Dana Gatlin interviews John Christie and comes up with a marvelously warm and interesting study. John is quoted at length, and that always means…