With new owners, Royal Mountain keeps its solid base | The Daily Gazette
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Jim Blaise, center, will remain on staff with the new owners, Jake and Brooke Tennis, at Royal Mountain Ski Area in Caroga Lake.
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CAROGA LAKE Jim Blaise is pushing 70 and hadn’t been on skis in 20 years, so he was rusty.
But his granddaughters, Sofia, 7, and Gabriella, 3, were going to be on the mountain his mountain last Sunday.
He hadn’t had any free time in 49 years, so he was ready.
As they took some runs down Royal Mountain, 10 miles northwest of Johnstown, underneath the little girls’ little skis was a deep, firm base of snow made by the ski area’s outstanding battalion of snow guns that had been working hard once the weather was suitable. Then there was also some new stuff, compliments of the storm that clobbered the Capital Region on Dec. 16.