Liberty University Buys Year-Round Ski Slope
Just about an hour south of Charlottesville sits Lynchburg, Virginia, home to 20,000 evangelical students and now, a YEAR ROUND SNOWLESS SKI SLOPE.
I am not making this up. Part of Liberty University’s 5,000 acre mountain range will morph into a God-less creation of fake snow. That’s right, the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Center will be a year-round ski center. It uses a synthetic material which is supposedly a lot like snow. Invented in 1993 by Brian Thomas of Briton Engineering, Snowflex originated in the UK and has been installed in several facilities throughout Europe.
Liberty doesn’t have co-ed dorms and it’s a dry campus, but now, it does have an artificial year-round ski slope. I’ll be egging my kids to apply for early admission. Liberty officials expect the slope to be completed in early 2009.
Here is a video of Snowflex technology:
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