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• Marketing

The $12 ticket is standard in early December.  ...

Critical Paths To Profit ...

Potentially one of the country's largest winter recreation centers.  ...

• Marketing

Small Area Market Research ...

• Rental

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• Miscellaneous

Scholars take a look at styles and patterns in names.  ...

• Area Management

Two Faces Of Motivation ...

• Grooming
• Trail Maintenance

To compress thin snow cover early in the season may take more than technique according to Jim Buckingham.  ...

• Resort Development

Too often the facilities at the bottom of a mountain just grow. There needs to be planning for skiers' coming and going say Terry R. Barnhart and Dave Leahy.  ...

Sometimes the old design ideas were better...especially in creating human-oriented base buildings. By Sherwood Stockwell, FAIA. ...

• Resort Development

Vail's huge expansion program was the result of extensive study writes Bob Parker. The steps involved are useful for expansion of any size.  ...

• Snowmaking

An assortment of new equiptment and up-dating of standards is described and charted by SAM's Technical Editor Nils Ericksen.  ...

Dynamite is dangerous-especially around ski lifts and buildings. Lew Cuyler describes how blasting is done at Stratton.  ...

• Personnel Issues

A case history of how Breckenridge and Aspen involved employees in creating guest happiness. By Cathey L. Bermhard.  ...

• Safety

How ski areas are successfully using safety programs is described in Part II of an update on skier safety by Lew Cuyler.  ...

SAM asked him questions about the ski industry.  ...

• Ski Patrol

How they have reduced accidents with an identifiable patrol group.  ...