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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 :: I MADE MOGULS DISAPPEAR ISSUE May 2014 AUTHOR David Slutzsky VOLUME 53-3 PAGE 16 SUBJECT Terrain I’m writing in response to an article in the SAM January 2014 issue by Patrick Torsell, titled “Where Are All the Moguls?” As a proponent of the power tiller, I am one of the...

SPEAK OUT :: MEANINGFUL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS FREE ISSUE March 2014 AUTHOR Auden Schendler VOLUME 53-2 PAGE 12 SUBJECT Opinion, Environment I recently talked to a ski area executive who said: “We want to do something on climate change but we just don’t have the money.” I can sympa...

SPEAKOUT :: REMEMBERING HENRIK BULL ISSUE January 2014 AUTHOR Jennifer Rowan VOLUME 53-1 PAGE 17 SUBJECT Obituary It is with great sadness that we say good-bye to architect Henrik H. Bull, who died on December 3, 2013, at his home in California after an illness. Henrik’s work in the mountain reso...

SPEAKOUT :: WHERE ARE ALL THE MOGULS? ISSUE January 2014 AUTHOR Patrick Torsell VOLUME 53-1 PAGE 16 SUBJECT Terrain Twenty years ago you could hardly find a ski area that wasn’t littered with moguls. They were everywhere. But by the mid-’90s, moguls were on the way to extinction. Many blame t...

SPEAK OUT :: DOES VICE STILL SELL? ISSUE September 2013 AUTHOR John Fry VOLUME 52-5 PAGE 10 SUBJECT Opinion The last issue of SAM [July 2013] asked whether “Vice fits in ski marketing,” and then proceeded to answer the question as if the selling of recreational skiing began in 1970, rather th...

SPEAK OUT :: WHERE IS THE MAGIC? ISSUE May 2013 AUTHOR Joe Hession VOLUME 52-3 PAGE 12 SUBJECT Opinion Can you think of another activity where the person pays $150 to $200 NOT to actually accomplish that activity? You pay for sky diving, you go sky diving. You pay for golf, and at least you get a pretty ...

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