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Trick or Treat: Sunday River Opens for Halloween
SAM Magazine-Sunday River, Me., Oct. 31, 2007-What a difference a year makes. Unlike last fall, when snowmaking across the East was stymied by unseasonably…
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SIA Trade Show Moves to Denver in 2010
SAM Magazine-Denver, Oct. 30, 2007-Snowsports Industries America is moving its annual trade show to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver in 2010, ending more…
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California’s Trinity Mountain Torched by Fire
SAM Magazine-Green Valley Lake, Calif., Oct. 29, 2007-Trinity Mountain Resort was burned last week by the Slide fire. No lives were lost, but ten…
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Pay Rates At Issue in Telluride
SAM Magazine – Telluride, Colo., October 29, 2007 – Dave Riley, Telluride’s new CEO, is creating controversy in this southern Colorado ski town. Riley…
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Eastern Areas Begin Snowmaking Operations
SAM Magazine-Bethel, Maine, Oct. 29, 2007-Sunday River and Sugarloaf, Maine, and Bretton Woods and Attitash, N.H., are among the handful of Eastern areas that…
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JMA Ventures Buys Red Lodge Mountain Resort
SAM Magazine-Red Lodge, Mont., Oct. 26, 2007-An affiliate of JMA Ventures, LLC has purchased Red Lodge Mountain Resort. JMA has, in the past eighteen…
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Vail Hits Dead End at The Canyons
SAM Magazine-Denver, Oct. 23, 2007-After Vail spent approximately $2 million in an attempt to prevent the American Skiing Company (ASC) from selling The Canyons…
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Aussie Invasion Continues in Whistler
SAM Magazine – Whistler, B.C., October 9, 2007 – As anyone who has skied Whistler in the past decade knows, the ski resort relies…
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Here’s the Beef: Vail Eateries Go Natural
SAM Magazine-Broomfield, Colo., Oct. 10, 2007-Vail Resorts, Inc. (VR) will serve natural, hormone-free meats and poultry and organic dairy products in 40 on-mountain restaurants…
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Revelstoke Primed for December Debut
SAM Magazine-Revelstoke, B.C., Oct. 9, 2007-Revelstoke Mountain Resort, the massive development in British Columbia’s interior, is expected to open on schedule by Dec. 22.…
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New Resort For Utah?
SAM Magazine-Salt Lake City, Oct. 9, 2007-Utah may have another major ski resort soon. The proposed resort, 18 miles from the Salt Lake City…
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Arapahoe Basin to Open for Season on Oct. 10
SAM Magazine-Arapahoe Basin, Colo., Oct. 9, 2007-Arapahoe Basin will open on Oct. 10 for the 2007-2008 ski season. This marks the Basin’s earliest opening…
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H2-B Visa Cap Hits Resorts Hard
SAM Magazine–October 8, 2007–Ski resorts across North America are scrambling to find workers after the H2-B visa cap was hit. The cap, which limits…
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Doppelmayr CTEC President, Jan Leonard, Moving On
SAM Magazine–Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2, 2007–As of yesterday, October 1, the president of Doppelmayr CTEC, Jan Leonard has left his position. Leonard…
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Colorado Resorts Start Making Snow
SAM Magazine-Vail, Colo., Sept. 27, 2007-Colorado ski areas have started to blow snow. Both Loveland and Arapahoe Basin fired up the guns this week,…
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Goar Chosen to Head The Canyons
SAM Magazine-Park City, Utah, Sept. 27, 2007-Michael Goar has been named managing director of The Canyons. He has 31 years of ski resort industry…
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Vail Resorts Net Rose 34% in 2007
SAM Magazine-Broomfield, Colo., Sept. 27, 2007-Vail Resorts posted a net income gain of 34.2 percent for 2007 over the 2006 fiscal year. The company…
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Massicotte Named CEO of Mont Tremblant
SAM Magazine-Vancouver, B.C., Sept. 27, 2007-Charles Massicotte has been named president and CEO for Intrawest’s Mont Tremblan. In this newly created position, Massicotte will…