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SAM Coverage

Author: Olivia

  • Newspapers

    Our 4th annual tabulation of what the major metropolitan newspapers will be doing this coming Fall and Winter in the way of coverage, special…

  • Tension Drive Terminal Design

    Lift engineer Tony Sowder has prepared a technical article for SAM on the advantages of combining the traction rope tension and drive systems in…

  • Designing A Better Place To Eat

    Charles M. Ewers, whose talented pen both drew the illustrations and wrote the text, gives the whys and wherefores of caferteria designs at ski…

  • NSAA Newsletter

    An important report on the Coca Cola program…some thoughts on ski brakes and how industry should respond..and other items. 

  • Cross Country– How To Make It Work

    John Hitchcock takes a look at the state of the art, and finds that many areas are making it work for them. 

  • Metropolitan X-Country Center

    Don Metivier describes the exciting program that has evolved in Glens Falls, N.Y>

  • The Vacation Skiers

    Bill Niles, Research Director for Ski Magazine, highlights some of the significant findings of a research project designed to analyze the vacation skier.

  • Why’s Of Winter Weather

    One of the country’s leading meteorologists, Gordon Barnes, tells us why we have been having screwy winter weather in the past few years, and…

  • Streamflow

    James Hornbeck and Gordon Stuart, both of the U.S Forest Service, examine the environmental effects on streamflow of ski area trail cutting. 

  • Wire Rope Inspections

    One of the most important subjects around, and Howard Anderson, Engineering Coordinator for Western Ski Areas insurance Program, tackles it for SAM.