SAM Coverage
Departments: Snowmaking
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Snowmaking Automation
The efficiencies and cost savings in automated snowmaking have resorts intrigued, if not entirely sold. No doubt, snowmaking automation is the wave of the…
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Little Green Giants
A resort doesn’t have to be big to have an impact on the environment. See what two smaller areas are doing to go green.…
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Speak Out :: May 2006
“Move the SIA Show to Denver” by Chris Diamond. “On Liability for NSP Members” by Larry Daniels. “ASTM Standards Are the Solution, Not the…
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Fan Guns-In the East?
When Peak Resorts purchased an eastern resort, the company decided to bring its successful Midwest snowmaking operations in. Did it work? Last fall, Crotched…
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Industry Reports :: July 2007
2006/07 Visits Down… Boyne Buys in Maine… Ragged Sold… Awards… People… Correction. 2006/07 Visits DownPreliminary estimates put nationwide skier visits at 54.8 million, down…
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Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
Is automated snowmaking right for your ski area? The answer: it depends. When automated snowmaking systems were first introduced way back in the last…
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Way Back When in SAM
This is a look back at SAM issues and articles appearing 25 years before and 10 years before. The highlights include the Haskell Hearings,…
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A Spring Showcase Of New Products
Software (BSS), Engine power and hydraulic equipment (Prinoth), Portable Actuator (TurboCristal), Summer Seat Covers (Ski Area Supplies), Snow pedestals (HTM Hydrotech), Hands free video…
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Tower Power
A look at the HKD tower gun snowmaking system designed by Herman K. Dupre and employed at his ski area, Seven Springs, Pa.
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Snow Gun Performance Testing
Continuing the Snowmaking Workshop series, this method of testing guns can help in buying and working decisions.