SAM Coverage
Departments: Risk & Safety
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Keep the Party Going
When it comes to seasonal staff, training throughout the season pays off in spades. Summer has ended. You have anywhere from 300 to 1,000…
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Speak Out :: September 2006
Jarrod Moss responds to SAM’s query with “Thoughts on a Summer Day.” SAM talks about “Taking Safety to the Next Level.” And PSIA examiner…
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Mountain Spy :: September 2006
SAM goes undercover. The Question: I moved here from Colombia a few years ago and I do have a green card. I’ve been snowboarding…
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Is Your Boss a Bully?
There’s plenty of them, you can’t change them, but you can learn to work with them. If I had a snowflake for every time I’m…
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Derailed
Freestylers are going back to nature with their rails and hits. Before terrain parks, pipe crews, $90,000 Zaugg groomers and the Winter X Games,…
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Supersize It
Squaw Valley’s superpipe take time, energy and a lot of snow to build and every year they wonder-is it worth it? In the greater…
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Saved Before the Tax Bell Tolled
A last-minute tax bill extended key tax breaks, but they are not reflected in the 2006 IRS publications. What can you do? As the…
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Gaining Efficiency
Pats Peak added software controls to its snowmaking pumps, boosting efficiency and increasing reliability, for relatively little cost. With no time for down time…
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Pump Up The Volume
This past winter, two Pocono areas proved the value of maximizing their snowmaking capacity. Considering the balmy temperatures throughout the Pocono Mountains at the…
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Going Abroad
As the domestic labor market tightens, resorts increasingly look overseas for staff. As the ski industry’s historical pool of snow bums has been shrinking,…