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I he Rappahannock Ski Area, closed since 1974 after two disastrous seasons without snow, may soon reopen with both skiing and now “snowless sledding” providing a year round recreational facility.
It would be the first such operation in Virginia or its neighboring states.
According to an announcement by James A. Moore, president of the Camelback Ski Corporation, and Bruce M. Belden, president of the Pico Peak Corporation, the two companies have agreed in principle to undertake the new operation upon purchase of the assets of Rappahannock Ski Corporation, now in bankruptcy.
Pico Peak owns and operates a ski area in the Green Mountains near Rutland, Vt. Camelback owns and operates a ski area in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, 100 miles north of Philadelphia and 100 miles west of New York.
Their plans call for opening the area nedr Washington late next spring with a new attraction—a snowless Alpine Slide on which a sled is ridden down a specially constructed mountain track.
This German-designed slide could permit the long financially troubled ski area
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