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'Ski Good Or Eat Wood' At Blue Knob
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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.- Was this helpful?
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