SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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Viking Brings Smiles To Lift Lines
Frank the Friendly Viking serves as a goodwill ambassador at Norway Mountain, Mich. He helps juggle equipment in the parking lot, plays trivia in…
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Twenty Month Lift Replacement
A new lift at Timberline, Oregon, was delayed due to environmental requirements. This feature follows the trail through Oregon’s environmental approval process. Includes charts…
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Tokyo’s Incredible Ski Dome
An up-close look at the world’s largest indoor ski facility, its lifts, snowmaking and ticketing. This SSAWS facility cost $400 million to build outside…
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Back To The Future
A look at the re-engineered and reconstructed rope tow at Alta, Utah. Jan Kunczynski was enlisted to solve the problem of transporting people across…
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Customize Your Lift
Article outlines some practical, inexpensive steps that can make new lifts more user-friendly and safer, too. Topics covered include: lift completion, improved safety, facilitated…
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Discount Lift Tickets Reaching Epidemic Proportions
An in-depth look at the pros and cons of discounted tickets. Covers strategies of ski areas that offer many types of tickets and those…
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Are Your Lifts Driving You (And Your Neighbors) Crazy?
The DC drives of the Vail/Beaver Creek, Colo., lift system were generating significant harmonic currents that were raising hell with the supposedly “clean” power…
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Killington’s Dazzling New Gondola
The new Poma gondola in Killington, Vt., combines comfort for the body with excitement for the mind. Replacing a 25-year-old icon involved coming up…
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Belt Transmissions
Another in the Lift Basics series explains how power is transmitted with an emphasis on V-Belts. Includes charts, graphs and illustrations.
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New Products
Weather station (Mesotech), Wireless lift pass (All-pine Marketing), Sealant (American Sealant), Fan Gun Improvements (Lenko), Handletow (H.S. Fabricators).