November 2006
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  • FAN GUNS-IN THE EAST?
    When Peak Resorts purchased an eastern resort, the company decided to bring its successful Midwest snowmaking operations in. Did it work?
  • TERRAIN PARK CONTEST ENTRIES
    Again this year, we asked ski areas from all over the world to send us pictures of what people liked to slide on, jump over, poach, jib, bonk...

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  • THE ART OF THE PARK
    This year's trends in terrain parks are all about catering to beginners and keeping it simple.

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  • CONSTRUCTION SITE
    Resorts were busy this summer installing lifts, expanding terrain, and sprucing up base areas.
  • DERAILED
    Freestylers are going back to nature with their rails and hits.
  • A QUESTION OF BALANCE
    Which is more important to an area's operations: building real estate or improving the mountain product? It depends.

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  • FRENCH FRIES TO GO, PLEASE
    As resorts across the continent get serious about the environment, what role can biodiesel play in daily operations?
  • SAM IDEA FILES
    Recycles stairs, a moveable wall ride and rail transport are some of the great ideas from creative ski resorts.
  • SPEAK-OUT
    A Snowmaking Challenge-by Joel Bourassa, Operations Manager, Tenney Mountain Resort, Plymouth, N.H. Many Ways to Achieve Diversity-A SAM Editorial. Alex Cushing, A Man in Full-by Bob Roberts, Executive Director, California Ski Industry Association.
  • INDUSTRY REPORTS
    Vail Arsonits Plead Guilty... Norquay Sold... New Owner for Snow Ridge... New SmartStyle... Hemlock Reopens... Powder Ridge Closes... Obit... People... Supplier People... Supplier News...
  • SLATS GOES PRIVATE
    There's money to be made in them thar hills.
  • THE RESORT BUILDERS
    Longtime ski journalist and former SAM editor John Fry has recently published "The Story of Modern Skiing," a history of the sport in the U.S. This adapted and abridged excerpt shows how much has changed in the business-and how much has not.
  • THE NEW PR PARADIGM
    Areas are adding tools-and dedicated employees-to increase guest communications via the web.
  • MOUNTAIN SPY
    SAM goes undercover.

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  • TRUE LIES
    As technology and the Web give customers greater access to weather conditions, snow reporters learn to both entertain and inform.