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One of these days, I'd like to stop by the home mountain of @nopoleskier , Royal Mountain in NY. Happy to see that the long time owner has found a new family to take care of the mountain.
Jan. 1, Daily Gazette
With new owners, Royal Mountain keeps its solid base
https://dailygazette.com/2021/01/01/with-new-owners-royal-mountain-keeps-its-solid-base/
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The conditions mirrored administrative change on the mountain, as Blaise finalized ownership sale of Royal Mountain in October to Jake and Brooke Tennis, a young couple who live in Johnstown with their daughters Hadley, 2, and Kennedy, 11 months.
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“I broke my arm snowboarding there,” said Jake Tennis, who has been working at Royal in a variety of capacities for the last 20 years. “That’s how it all started. I broke my arm, and I didn’t want to sit around. I think I might’ve started working in the rental shop a little bit, and parking cars. He said, ‘Well, you can do that with a broken arm if you want.’
“Definitely a giving guy and likes to see the kids smile. So everything he does there typically and obviously is for the patrons that ski there. Every year he’s ever been there, he just puts everything right back into the mountain. He just keeps dumping it back in, and that’s why we have one of the best snowmaking systems in the Northeast.”
“He’s wanted this forever,” Blaise said on Monday afternoon. “Jake is a P.E. [licensed Professional Engineer], a very smart guy. I used to kid him 10 years ago, ‘You’re the heir apparent,’ and we’d both smile.
“It was pretty cool that it all came together. A ski area of this size, winter and summer, the person that’s running it, the face of the place, they’ve got to be here. You can’t just take it over and send a bunch of jamokes in that nobody knows. They all know Jake.”
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Jan. 1, Daily Gazette
With new owners, Royal Mountain keeps its solid base
https://dailygazette.com/2021/01/01/with-new-owners-royal-mountain-keeps-its-solid-base/
". . .
The conditions mirrored administrative change on the mountain, as Blaise finalized ownership sale of Royal Mountain in October to Jake and Brooke Tennis, a young couple who live in Johnstown with their daughters Hadley, 2, and Kennedy, 11 months.
. . .
“I broke my arm snowboarding there,” said Jake Tennis, who has been working at Royal in a variety of capacities for the last 20 years. “That’s how it all started. I broke my arm, and I didn’t want to sit around. I think I might’ve started working in the rental shop a little bit, and parking cars. He said, ‘Well, you can do that with a broken arm if you want.’
“Definitely a giving guy and likes to see the kids smile. So everything he does there typically and obviously is for the patrons that ski there. Every year he’s ever been there, he just puts everything right back into the mountain. He just keeps dumping it back in, and that’s why we have one of the best snowmaking systems in the Northeast.”
“He’s wanted this forever,” Blaise said on Monday afternoon. “Jake is a P.E. [licensed Professional Engineer], a very smart guy. I used to kid him 10 years ago, ‘You’re the heir apparent,’ and we’d both smile.
“It was pretty cool that it all came together. A ski area of this size, winter and summer, the person that’s running it, the face of the place, they’ve got to be here. You can’t just take it over and send a bunch of jamokes in that nobody knows. They all know Jake.”
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