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  • Media-Newspapers

    e tabulate vital information on what newspapers serving the major skier markets have in store for the coming season. 

  • Media-Publicity Photos

    Ski writer (and new SAM correspondant) Charles Meyers of the Denver Post, illistrates the good and the bad in publicity shots. 

  • Educating The Bosses

    This article is currently not available online. Please email donna@saminfo.com for a pdf copy of the article

  • Get All The Spiraling Out Of Rope Tows

    Veteran area operator Walt Stopa, of Wilmont Hills, Wisc., comes up with a solution to the perennial (and lethal!) problem of rope spiraling. 

  • Remodel Or Replace ?

    Tramway Engineer Chuck Dwyer examines what you should consider in making a decision on what to do about an aging lift. 

  • 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…