When the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Center was announced a while ago we didn’t really put two and two together. We thought it was just another dry slope, only this time stateside in Lynchberg, Virginia. But when a friend mentioned that this new park was at Liberty University, the school founded by the Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell it seemed even stranger.
According to a story on Inside Higher Ed, Jerry Falwell, Jr. built the 11-acre park to attract college students to Liberty U.

Adding a ski slope to Liberty is a move straight out of the Falwell playbook, according to Kevin Roose, a Brown University student who went “undercover” at Liberty to a write an expose on the university. . . .Jerry Falwell belonged to the ‘By any means necessary’ school of evangelism. He gave away cars to the first people who registered; he had a video game contest. I think if he could have gotten away with it, he would have given [new students] pieces of Noah’s Ark.”.

Grand opening festivities for the slope are August 29, 2009. The “mountain” is open from 5 to 10 PM daily and costs $7 a hour, $4 if you’re a student.

[Link: Liberty Mountain via Inside Higher Ed]