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• Business

An interview with Chuck Lewis on the future of the ski industry. Lewis, currently involved with Eldora in Colorado, explodes the myths and explores the realities of success in a flat skier-participation market. ...

• Risk Management
• Safety
• Ski Patrol

For the past four years, Sugarloaf, Vt., has actively promoted safe skiing through a well-organized intervention program. This feature takes an in-depth look at a program that provides opportunities for the ski patrol to interact with the skiing public to prevent accidents on the hill through bus talks, a fast and reckless skier program, a safety t...

• Snowmaking

An overview of what is available to ski resort operators in air/water snowmaking automation, including scatterplots, charts of cost breakdown by region and a full description of what is available on the market, listed by manufacturer. Covers both automatic and semi-automatic systems. (Part 1 in a two-part series.) ...

• Ski Area Profiles

An area profile of Ski Roundtop of Pennsylvania and its parent company, Snow Time, which now operates three mountains, including Ski Windham, N.Y., and Ski Liberty, Pa. President of Snow Time, Irv Naylor, outlines his management techniques and explains why his areas are so successful. ...

• Energy
• Environment
• Vehicle Maintenance

A comprehensive investigation of how proper fuel selection and use can save ski area fleets lots of money as well as prevent future problems, with some suggestions from Mammoth Mountain. Topics include: dealing with diesel, warming devices, water avoidance and more. ...

A two-page spread on the multi-million dollar mountaintop restaurant at Northstar-at-Tahoe, Calif. The Summit Bar and Grille restaurant was built as a food and beverage facility with a focus on quality and a return on investment. ...

• Racing

A look into the what the information highway offers ski area marketers. Includes a look at available services and what can be obtained from signing on. Covers Steamboat's use of the Presslink service to offer their press kits and color photos online, resulting in significant exposure for the somewhat isolated resort. ...

• Marketing
• Retail

A look at the licensing agreeement between World Wide Ski Corp. and Green Fields, a logo merchandiser. The two have formed the World Wide Ski Licensing Group to market and merchandise the logos of several of the country's largest ski resorts. ...

• Lifts

A photo review of three new innovations in uphill transportation. Includes the Yantrak people mover at Mammoth Mountain, Calif., the Doppelmayr chairlift for wheelchairs in Hoch-Ybrig, Switzerland and the double-deck jigback tram from Garaventa, scheduled for installation at Samnaun, Switzerland. ...

• Miscellaneous

A look into what it takes to personally survive Chapter 11 hearings, lifted from the experiences of the author as she attempted to retrieve King Ridge, New Hampshire from Chapter 11. The article is written in a sassy, no-nonsense manner with humorous anecdotes on the whole process. ...

Three new food service products stood out at the annual National Restaurant Show in Chicago, including a gas-fired clam-shell grill, a pot-washing system and condiment dispensing equipment. ...

A look at the events of the day featured in the pages of Ski Area Management twenty years ago. ...

• Racing

A look into the different weather forecasting services that are available to the computer user with a modem. Includes a complete assessment of the extent of these services, how to contact them, and what hardware is needed to access them. ...

• Ski School

Author John Fry interprets the results of a Snow Country magazine survey on the effectiveness of ski school, including the differences in perception from consumer to instructor to ski school director to area president. ...

• Miscellaneous

Names, addresses and key contacts for suppliers of products and services to the ski industry. ...

• Miscellaneous

A listing of products and services and their suppliers within the ski industry. ...

Using the results from the ACL Awareness Training Program, Dr. Ettlinger states that technology is not at the point to produce equipment that would reduce the incidence of ACL injuries--it is awareness that is the key at this point in time. ...