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SAM Coverage

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  • Ski Area Rip-Off

    Norm McKinnon spells out how many areas perhaps most are losing a shocking 10 percent or more off the top to theft. 

  • Pipe Wall Thickness

    Ron Ratnik goes into the critical decision of selecting the correct thickness for snowmaking pipe. Mistakes cost money! 

  • What A Snowmaking Year

    SAM invited each of the major snowmakers to tell a success story in this, the year of super snowmaking successes. 

  • Reseeding & Rehabilitating

    Mike Korologos tells the interesting facts of Park West’s innovative use of volunteer prison labor. 

  • 1977 Haskell Bill

    A perceptive and thorough piece of reporting on this important legislation by a very knowledgeable observer of both the Washington and ski scenes, Deedee…

  • New Developments

    A little about two big year-round resorts soon to come on line; with a provocative introductory overview by award-winning Bill Berry on where our…

  • Photography

    Top ski photographer and author, Peter Miller, starts a series of articles in SAM designed to help areas get maxiumi mileage from photography. 

  • Grooming

    A report on a novel program at Mont Tremblant where students took over the grooming chores last winter. 

  • Vehicle Evaluation

    Our cover story with Amy Carey providing her very own captions. 

  • Drygulching In New Hampshire

    Mort Lund gives a run-down on 2-Gun Thompson’s plans to sell the states two ski areas.