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  • I Win You Win

    Buzz Bainbridge describes the emploee training program bought by Vail based on Transactional Analysis. This will be a major topic at the NSAA Convention. 

  • Crossroads For Freestyle

    Editor David Rowan brings you up-to-date on the important debate surging around the freestyle movement. The outcome is likely to affect the economics of…

  • Publish Or Perish?

    Marketing editor Colleen Cayton takes a look at those area newspapers: What is their purpose? Does your area need one? What do they cost?…

  • 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.