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• Marketing

An important and timely special to SAM-- the first released figures on the brand new Forest Service study conducted on the ski market: its size and potential growth. Stacy Standley of Snoengineering and Wilbur LaPage, research specialist for the Forest Service share some important, and sometimes startling, findings with SAM readers.  Ad...

• Racing

Clair Walters writes a special report on the surge in skier interest in recreational racing, and on the various programs, some brand new, that are on the scene.  ...

• Resort Development

Ted Farwell presents a new and provocative approach to the knotty problem of how many skiers you can...and/or should...put on a hill or in an area, and still maintain quality control.  ...

• Area Management

PART II-- Bob Saltonstall of Waterville Valley, N.H., continues the three-part series on successful management techniques. Part I in Fall SAM was widely acclaimed.  ...

• Area Management

The second in our series of "Profiles in Profits." This one is by Ron Fett, and is about the astutely-run Virginia area of Wintergreen.  ...

• Miscellaneous

PR/Marketing Executive Pam Conklin calls "The Unthinkable," and tells the practical side of how to handle the sort of bomb threats experienced by some Colorado areas last winter.  ...

Everything comes up roses in Ted Farwell's annual highlight review of the NSAA Economic Study. This is some of the happiest escape literature ever for the ski area industrialist!  ...

• Lifts

Pur 18th annual census of new lift construction in North America. Bullish news, with a sharp upturn in this important SAM index.  ...

• Lifts

First in a new series of technical articles by our lift suppliers on installations and lift technology. Starting off this series is Tony Sowder, of Riblet.  ...

• Miscellaneous

The Vital, cross-referenced listing...and annual SAM service features.  ...