SAM Coverage
Departments: Mountain Ops
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RCR Eliminates Manmade Hits from Its Parks
SAM Magazine-Calgary, Alberta, Nov. 12, 2007-Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR), is giving big air a big kiss-off. “All man-made snow jumps will be…
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Grand Targhee Adds Employee Housing
SAM Magazine-Driggs, Id., Nov. 7, 2007-Grand Targhee Resort has purchased new employee housing just north of town here, in the Buffalo Valley Condominiums. The…
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Build Your Own Park at Grouse Mountain
SAM Magazine-North Vancouver, B.C., Nov. 7, 2007-Grouse Mountain is launching a groundbreaking-or at least snow-moving-program called Build Your Own Park. This gives passholders and…
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Windham and Hunter Offer Joint Ticket Option
SAM Magazine-Windham, N.Y., Nov. 6, 2007-A mere eight miles apart, Hunter Mountain and Windham are offering visitors an inexpensive way to sample the disparate…
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East West, Morgan Stanley Partner on Canadian Village
SAM Magazine-Canmore, Alberta, Nov. 1, 2007-Colorado-based East West Partners and Morgan Stanley Real Estate have acquired Three Sisters Mountain Village, a 1,800-acre partially completed…
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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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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…