November 2022
November 2022
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Terrain Park Contest 2022
Our annual showcase of the finest freestyle fabrications with resort-submitted entries in four categories: features, events, edits, and—new this year— crews. In the same way that terrain park crews like to rebuild their parks to keep them fresh, we made some changes to this year’s Terrain Park Contest by adding and subtracting categories in an effort to highlight what’s most important to park builders. The result: there are now four categories in the contest—the most since it first graced these pages back in 2005. “Terrain Park Events” has returned after it was temporarily replaced last year by “Terrain Park Edits,” which remains and has garnered a strong response both...
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Our annual showcase of the finest freestyle fabrications with resort-submitted entries in four categories: features, events, edits, and—new this year— crews.
We look to SAM's archives and today's brightest minds to forecast the possible impacts of inflation and a potential recession on the upcoming season.
Details of some of the major overhauls, terrain expansions, new lifts, and employee housing projects underway at resorts across North America.
How to get the most out of today's impressive mountain ops management software.
Clever solutions from Sunlight, Colo., Camelback, Pa., and Lost Valley, Maine, to solve your signage, lift loading, and cup-holding conundrums.
A variety of employee-centric programs help resorts foster engagement with and commitment to safety best practices.
When to leverage your resort’s message in the media (and why you still should).
Sharing the day-by-day details of mountain operations can be a successful way to create community while marketing your resort.
“I don’t want to buy a season pass, how else can I ski at your resort?”
The revised Your Responsibility Code should serve as a reinvigoration of the industry's safety efforts.
After two years of Covid, what do resort operators expect this winter?
Scenes from MSAA, SAM Summer Ops Camp, NES, MTS, and SANY-PSAA.
Whatg the SKI poll says, climate change talk, people moves, and more.
