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“They’re hoping for that,” commented Chairman Gardiner.
Wesley Harris asked if the 1 Rappahannock Ski Area would have the assets to remove the slide from the mountain should the company go bankrupt again.
The value of materials used in the slide are so high that removal wouldn’t be a problem, answered Knive.
Barbara Ennis said she could see difficulties with the ultimate development of the ski area, with rowdiness and vandalism. Just the ski area when it was opened previously was “fine because it was a limited thing...just a few weekends a year...It seems to me skiing will inevitably give way to the importance of the slide ride,” she said.
In answer to a question from Washington furniture maker Peter Kramer, Knive compared the noise from the Alpine slide to that from a “roller skating child, going over a sidewalk with cracks in it.”
“What about the screams?” asked June Jordan.
Knive acknowledged that yells from riders could carry past the recreation area.
Noting that this area suffered from stagnation and air inversions during summer months, Kramer asked if carbon monoxide from the autos travelling to the ski area through Washington would increase air pollution.
Summer traffic would be spread out through the whole day, Knive replied, and so would create “no problem.”
The Alpine slide will provide recreation similar to an amusement park, maintained Jerome Segal. “It’s something you do two or three times...People from the county will go and try it out
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