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Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, 160 miles southwest of Washington, where snow usually comes only in unreliable flurries, seems an unlikely spot for a ski resort. Yet last weekend the stately rooms of The Homestead resort were crowded with the parka-and-stretch-pants set. It is the Southland's winter sport resort, and one thing is sure: there should always be snow. Reason: snow machines, an expensive network of pipes, hoses and nozzles lining the ski trails. Water, atomized by a compressed air blast, turns into snow crystals as it sprays out into below-freezing temperatures. Not only...
Business Booster. The Homestead turned to skiing to fill its rooms in winter, when business drops from 500 guests a day during summer to 30. Now, after investing $376,000 in clearing trails, installing a ski lift and a snow machine, winter business is up to 150 guests a day. Homestead's success has encouraged other investors to plan a resort near Gatlinburg, Tenn. The investors are dickering with Larchmont Engineering, Lexington, Mass., the largest manufacturer of snow makers, for machines...
...North the machines are developing a new class of Sunday skiers who do not have the time to spend traveling to the big slopes where the more skilled play. William Ostrander, a Detroit electrician, started Summit Ski Club on 135 hilly acres not far from the city. But in the first year lack of snow forced him to close for two-thirds of the season, and he had only 600 customers. After spending $15,000 on a snow machine, he gets 10,000 skiers in an eleven-week season, now nets about 25% on his $100,000 total investment. "Without...
Disaster Area. Even in normally heavy snowfall areas, machines are a good investment. Wisconsin, which usually has plenty of snow in its ski areas, has had hardly a flake this season, despite the snow that buried cities farther south and in the East...
...Position. Drafted into the French army last April, Périllat was sent to Algeria. But he was back with the first snows as a member of the Alpine troops, trained by Honore Bonnet, who by no coincidence is also coach of the French national ski team. It was Bonnet, along with Olympic Gold Medalist Vuarnet, who developed the "egg position" used by Périllat and the other members of the French team. The position, a sort of high, shoulder-down crouch, is so tiring to main tain that the French team members must take special exercises to build...