SAM Coverage
Departments: Risk & Safety
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Park City Ski Patrollers Vote to Unionize
SAM Magazine—Park City, Utah, Dec. 16, 2015—By a narrow margin, ski patrollers at Park City voted on Monday to unionize. The preliminary tally was…
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Silverton Mountain Adds Tim Petrick as COO
SAM Magazine—Silverton, Colo., Dec. 9, 2015—Tim Petrick is joining Silverton Mountain Ski Area and Silverton Mountain Guides Alaska Heli with the kickoff of the…
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Gerald F. Groswold, Longtime Winter Park Chief, Dies
SAM Magazine—Denver, Dec. 1, 2015—Gerald F. (Jerry) Groswold, longtime head of Winter Park resort and a former board member and chairman of both Colorado…
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Telluride Ski Patrol Finalizes Union Contract
Photo credit: www.tellurideskiresort.com. SAM Magazine—Telluride, Colo., Nov. 16, 2016—The Telluride Ski Patrol, which formed a union under the umbrella of the Communications Workers of…
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A Hospitable Climate?
As scientific evidence accumulates about the changing climate, winter resorts face many questions. Contrary to what some have said, those who professionally study the…
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Beaver Creek Ski Instructors Seek to Form Union
SAM Magazine—Avon, Colo., Oct. 30, 2016—A group of ski and snowboard instructors at Beaver Creek resort are looking to form a union, as early…
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Fairbank Group Looks To Hire 250 Instructors
SAM Magazine—Hancock, Mass., Oct. 22, 2015—The economics of the ski industry, the minimum wage wave and the imperative to create increasing numbers of new…
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103 and Counting: Guinness Bandwagon Gathers Steam
SAM Magazine—Boulder, Colo., Oct. 1, 2015—There are still several hours left to join the Guinness World Record ski and ride lesson attempt. With 103…
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Greening Up
The owner of Elk Mountain, Pa., wanted to create a picture-postcard area. In planting 35,000 evergreen trees, he got even more than that. Long…
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Committee Seeks to Run Mt. Ascutney as Non-Profit
SAM Magazine—West Windsor, Vt., July 10, 2015—An eight-member committee is working to form a non-profit organization that would manage and maintain the assets of…