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manager-to-be at Rappahannock Ski Area, replied to Langelle’s statements on behalf of Camelback. Knive acknowledged that the access road had been resurfaced three or four times last summer but explained the work was due to the Highway Department’s mistake in laying down a wrong surfacing mixture initially.
The use of beer on the lifts and slide “is something we watch out for diligently’’ and try to prevent, said Knive. It is against the recreation area’s regulations for riders to carry anything on the slide, he noted.
Dust in the Camelback parking lot is caused by the lot’s dirt-cement base, he continued. “We plan to use a different base in Rappahannock’s.”
According to Knive, seasonal unemployment was a problem at Camelback until the slide was installed. Since its operation, “we’ve provided jobs during the summer...provided jobs to all the personnel we could.”
He told the BZA members that slide riders were usually gone by 5 or 6 p.m. during weekdays but occasinally stayed on weekends to 9 p.m. On weekdays, he said, Camelback had fewer customers but more repeat riders. There were more visitors on weekends but most only rode the slide one time.
On weekends, Moore interjected, Camelback generally sold 2,500 ride tickets.
One Car Every
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Jerome Segal, also a landowner and resident on Harris Hollow Road, figured that 2,500 ride tickets amounted to approximately 1000 cars per weekend, based on two and a half persons per car. This meant, he said, about a hundred cars an hour or, considering round trip traffic, one car every 15 seconds passing any given $ point on Harris Hollow Road during a good day in the summer.
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