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'Ski Good Or Eat Wood' At Blue Knob

Dec 16, 2008 Roger Leo, Associate Editor     Comments (1)

Bluebird day at Blue Knob. Bluebird day at Blue Knob.

At A Glance

When: Dec 24, 2008

Cost: Six lift tickets for $225

Blue Knob's first day of its 45th season was, in the words of Mountain Manager Andy Himes, "a bluebird day.

"It's gorgeous today, and this is a good early start for us," Himes said.

Blue Knob attracts family skiers, largely from the Baltimore-D.C. metropolitan area.

"We do have a lot of dedicated high-end skiers and riders due to the fact that, as I like to put it, we're kind of the Mad River Glen of the South," Himes said.

"We can't compete with Seven Springs as far as amenities go, but our terrain is outstanding. Until you get into at least southern Vermont you won't find any better terrain than we have," he said.

Blue Knob's loyal fans sport bumperstickers that read, "Ski Good or Eat Wood," somewhat similar in spirit to Mad River's "Ski It If You Can."

Himes said the area has a fine offering of glade skiing, marked and unmarked, maintained in the off season with the help of many locals.

Himes has skied at Blue Knob since it opened Dec. 7. 1963.

Web special: Six lift tickets for $225, 25 percent savings over regular prices, offer ends Dec. 24. The six tickets are good for any eight-hour session any day the area is open, including holidays and weekends. Use them one at a time, or bring five friends and use them all at once.

 

Recent Comments

  • by Mark C. Oct 27, 2009
    The so called "gladed" ski slopes at Blue Knob are almost never open and are literally filled with stumps, brush and rocks. The glades were created about 10 years ago by a commercial (for profit) logging operation where the large, economically valuable trees were removed. This process is quite different from proper gladed ski slope formation. When glades are created, large trees are left standing while only the underbrush and small trees are removed. Today, most of the glades at Blue Knob are overgrown with large saplings and brush. And, there is also severe erosion evident on some of the steeper glades and ski slopes such as the "Ditch" and "Bone Yard" glades. Moreover, the gladed slopes lack snowmaking and Blue Knob averages about 100 inches of snow a year, which is far below the amount of snow required for decent tree skiing. In my opinion Blue Knob has been providing sub-standard skiing over the past few years. I might add that Andy Himes no longer works as Blue Knob's mountain manager.
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