SAM Coverage
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Wunderbar!
SAM reports on a tour of western ski resorts by 46 European ski area owners and managers.
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Insurance
SAM interviews ski area insurance consultant, Felix Kloman, who draws on his matchless backround to give our readers a balanced and realistic picture of…
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Whither Whiteface
Janet Nelson, our General Editor, looks beyond the 1980 Olympics at this big, cold New York mountain and speculates on its future.
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Changing Times
Prominent ski area designer, Jay Flood, takes a backward look at master-planning in the laissez faire ’60s and compares it with the “bureaucratic ’70’s”
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Re-Greening Ski Slopes
An interesting account of how to get cover using plants rather than seed by Mike Korologos.
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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…