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it, I would not mind everyday traffic.”
Ex-employee Surprise
Witness
The next speaker, David Langelle, identified himself as a former Camelback employee, a civil engineer who owned land and visited in Rappahannock but did not reside in the county yearround.
Langelle said Camelback’s access road had been resurfaced twice during the two months he was employed there. Seasonal employment of young people at the Pennsylvania recreation area and subsequent off-season work force reductions resulted in heavier unemployment compensation loads, he maintained.
Langelle reported that Camelback sold as many as 4,000 rides per day on its Apline slide and described that attraction as a “permanent structure on the land...the same as a roller coaster in an amusement park.”
He said he’d seen accidents on the slide—broken bones, cuts and burns—and that ride attendents had problems keeping beer drinkers off the lift up the mountain to the attraction and also off the slide itself.
In answer to questions from the audience and BZA members, Langelle said injuries sustained at Camelback were cared for by Red Cross paramedics. He said that sprinklers drove back and forth over the parking lot wetting it down to decrease dust literally eight hours a day, and compared the noise from the slide to that from a roller coaster amusement park ride.
Langelle said he resigned from his job at Camelback to take a position with a Washington engineering firm. He described the management at the recreation area as “top notch...there’s no waste of materials or labor at all.”
Merle Scoggin asked if ski area lay-offs worked a financial hardship on the locality.
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