On Saturday July 7, 2007, Blue Mountain Village ski resort played host to the Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary Club’s 23rd Annual Blue Mountains Chili Cookoff. The ski resort doesn’t sit idle in the summer, apparently, as the place was packed. Tasters wandered around with their spoons and tried samples from the twenty or so contestants, with names like "Harry Fartter" and "Hell’s Kitchen". My vote went to the organic buffalo chili in booth number 1.(Buffalo, or bison, is raised locally.)
In the background, the ski lift was doing a brisk business taking bikers and their rented mountain bikes to the top of Blue Mountain, where it’s all downhill from there.