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...impassive head of security who was once a bodyguard for Tito, flatly guarantees the safety of everyone who will be here. Even at the trials, his operatives were impressive; when someone among the Austrian downhillers set off a cherry bomb in the lobby of their hotel (standard apres-ski joshing among downhillers, who are considered by other skiers to be mad), the place filled with police instantly. "Ha-ha-ha," went the Austrians. "Ha-ha-[long pause] ha." No further cherry bombs have been detonated...
...Utah's Snowbird hold racing camps where they can polish slalom techniques while the youngsters run gates in separate classes. On the other hand, Charles Maas, director of marketing at Vail and Beaver Creek in Colorado, says that 15% of the people who come to Vail do not ski: "They want to shop or go ice skating." To amuse family members whose interest in alpine skiing is less than fanatic, resort managers are building elaborate tennis and racquetball courts, heated pools, co-ed Jacuzzis, ice rinks and-say it isn't so, Sepp-video-game rooms...
...worrisome truth is that skier days (one skier, one day) at the nation's resorts last season reached only 46.9 million, down almost 4 million from the season before. Was it just bad snow in the East, or has the skiing population reached a plateau? No one is really sure, but the best of the resort managers are choosing the same cures. The come-on is "Kids Ski Free!" At Waterville Valley, New Hampshire's largest area, there are free lift tickets on most weekdays for children under 13, if at least one parent buys a ticket...
...Minneapolis-to-Denver ticket) by absorbing the discounts at other concessions. Keystone - lifts, lodges and all - is owned and operated by one company (Ralston Purina, oddly enough, best known for animal feed). Thus Jones is in a much better position to optimize profits than Aspen Skiing Co., which owns lifts but not hotels and restaurants at nearby Aspen. Perhaps not coincidentally, Aspen is known as one of the last ski refuges of affluent singles...
...lift tickets. Still, the cost for two parents and two children spending seven nights at Steamboat comes to the kind of money most families go to the bank for: $2,144, not including meals or drinks, or the pur chase of any equipment. What no one in the ski biz knows is whether enough families will make the sacrifices necessary to afford such bargains. If not, does any one make safety bindings to protect ski-resort corporations from out-of-control, twisting falls...