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An important report on the Coca Cola program...some thoughts on ski brakes and how industry should respond..and other items.  ...

John Hitchcock takes a look at the state of the art, and finds that many areas are making it work for them.  ...

Don Metivier describes the exciting program that has evolved in Glens Falls, N.Y> ...

• Marketing

Bill Niles, Research Director for Ski Magazine, highlights some of the significant findings of a research project designed to analyze the vacation skier. ...

One of the country's leading meteorologists, Gordon Barnes, tells us why we have been having screwy winter weather in the past few years, and predicts better things ahead for our industry! ...

James Hornbeck and Gordon Stuart, both of the U.S Forest Service, examine the environmental effects on streamflow of ski area trail cutting.  ...

• Lifts

One of the most important subjects around, and Howard Anderson, Engineering Coordinator for Western Ski Areas insurance Program, tackles it for SAM. ...

• Miscellaneous

SAM's Southern Californian connection, Luanne Pfeiffer, writes about the boom in whirlpool bath spasat ski areas.  ...

• Area Management

SAM takes a quick look at the impact of this summer profit center for ski areas.  ...

• Racing

A look at some of the innovative ways that some areas are using NASTAR.  ...

• Miscellaneous

Planner raymond Rodgers took a busman's holiday in August. Here, unedited and uncut, are Dr. Rodgers' witty, blunt and eminently readable comments on some of the things he saw. You don't have to agree with him; but you will find he has interesting things to say.  ...

• Marketing

Marketing Editor Colleen Cayton comes to grips with the difficult subject of how areas can make this medium works for them.  ...