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  • Speak-Out :: Making it Great Again! By John Fry

    Speak-Out :: Making it Great Again! By John Fry In November 2016, 16,000 fans attended a World Cup alpine ski race in New England, where love of the sport has never waned.  Last November was a transformative month. . . not only for politics, but possibly for American skiing. In politics, a neglected bunch of underemployed voters, largely unobserved and resentful of political correctness and diversity, had grown skeptical of the Establishment’s message and mission. The result was an electoral surprise. A parallel with skiing may seem remote, but how about this? Two weeks after the election, more than 15,000 enthusiastic fans unexpectedly showed up at an alpine ski race. And as many ...

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SPEAK OUT :: STANDING UP FOR SKIING ISSUE March 2013 AUTHOR Roger Marolt VOLUME 52-2 PAGE 10 SUBJECT opinion, skiing [THE FOLLOWING WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR THE SNOWMASS SUN AND IS EXCERPTED HERE WITH PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR. WE RESISTED THE URGE TO PUT IN SKIING/SNOWBOARDING IN EVERY INSTANCE, BU...

SPEAK OUT :: THIS IS ONE PROBLEM ISSUE March 2013 AUTHOR Staff VOLUME 52-2 PAGE 10 SUBJECT opinion NSAA’s recent spotlight on the leveling out, and even decline, in snowboarding’s numbers is a cop out. We are doing ourselves a disservice by concentrating on this single element in our number...

SPEAK OUT :: MEDIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE January 2013 AUTHOR Jennifer Rowan VOLUME 52-1 PAGE 10 SUBJECT environment, media Let me just state the obvious up front: I am not a scientist. Nonetheless, indulge me a little bit on the subject of climate change (a phrase that cracks me up; the climate has ...

SPEAK OUT :: KEEP KIDS IN THEIR SEATS ISSUE November 2012 AUTHOR Richard Kun VOLUME 51-6 PAGE 10 SUBJECT Safety, Lifts Our industry seems to be experiencing an increase in the number of children accidentally falling from chairlifts, as “Up in the Air” (SAM, July 2012) brought to light. This...

SPEAK OUT :: WE'RE IN GREAT COMPANY ISSUE September 2012 VOLUME 51-5 PAGE 12 SUBJECT Opinion The following ski areas are also celebrating a 50th birthday. We’ve listed those that were founded between 1961 and 1963 because we don’t know when, and for how long, these areas will celebrate this great milestone. Our congratul...

  SPEAK OUT :: MINIMUM WAGE WAR Coming to terms with the rising "minimum" wage in SAM, November 2015.  SPEAK OUT :: THE E-COMMERCE CHALLENGE Jonathan Davis, IT director at Perfect North Slopes, responds to the article, "The e-Commerce Wait Problem" in SAM, March 2015.  SPEAK OUT ::...

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