Red Devil Glade Construction

[farmboy]

Jared Emerson has begun Red Devil glade construction with a volunteer crew this weekend. I'm sure it will be another masterpiece

[b632]

Nice, I have to say those guys cut some nice lines in the other glades
DEFINETLY helps having skiers cutting the lines!

[salsgang]

Another work day set up for this Saturday Sept 20. Two of the @MaineSkiFamily crew coming up to help with the Red Devil Glade creation. if you want to help see my blog post for contact info:

http://www.maineskifamily.com/2014/07/n ... eback.html

[salsgang]

One of the volunteer organizers provided me a couple more pics of the glade under construction. Here is one - more at the blog.



Blog Post - http://www.maineskifamily.com/2014/09/s ... pdate.html

[Glade Monkey]

Jared Emerson has begun Red Devil glade construction with a volunteer crew this weekend. I'm sure it will be another masterpiece

Man, that looks REALLY STEEP!

[salsgang]

Jared Emerson has begun Red Devil glade construction with a volunteer crew this weekend. I'm sure it will be another masterpiece

Man, that looks REALLY STEEP!

haha good one. 90 degree pitch.

[salsgang]

A dozen or so folks turned out to help Saturday - Glade is shaping up really nice!



A few more pics on my blog.

http://www.maineskifamily.com/2014/09/saddleback-red-devil-glade-work-day.html

[Pow on the Mao]

nice blog post and nice work! i am not surprised they are improving that side of the mountain. i ran into some saddleback folks in rangeley last weekend and heard some really wonderful news. looks like that side of the mountain has a really bright future. i can't wait to ride the new chutes. keep em tight! congrats to everyone at SB.

[salsgang]

nice blog post and nice work! i am not surprised they are improving that side of the mountain. i ran into some saddleback folks in rangeley last weekend and heard some really wonderful news. looks like that side of the mountain has a really bright future. i can't wait to ride the new chutes. keep em tight! congrats to everyone at SB.

You hearing something about a T-Bar and the west bowl?

[b632]

T-bar???? What are you saying? I'm sure if a used T-Bar was available ,I am SURE ,sugarloaf would have bought it.

[Pow on the Mao]

see camden snow bowl post. the Tbar is in franklin county.

[bigelow]

Here it is.
Its a Hall 1200, slightly larger than the Cuseptic. Good for parts if nothing else. Pretty tired iron after 40 years on the salty coast.

[tipsdown]

It's actually significantly bigger than the Cupsuptic. It's 4,000 ft long. That will get you base to summit out of the West Bowl...1400ish vertical feet?...That's Skyline type vertical.

[bigelow]

It's actually significantly bigger than the Cupsuptic. It's 4,000 ft long. That will get you base to summit out of the West Bowl...1400ish vertical feet?...That's Skyline type vertical.

You are correct, although I was referring to power and drive. 1200 vs 1000. The Camden lift has a soft start too, which is nice.

[tipsdown]

It's actually significantly bigger than the Cupsuptic. It's 4,000 ft long. That will get you base to summit out of the West Bowl...1400ish vertical feet?...That's Skyline type vertical.

You are correct, although I was referring to power and drive. 1200 vs 1000. The Camden lift has a soft start too, which is nice.

Ah, gotcha. Soft starts are good. Plus it will be an advanced only ski area...should cut down on stoppage.

[Pow on the Mao]

spot on. even in my blurry state i was able to perk up when i heard 4k feet! congrats, i am super stoked for jimmy and farmer.

[salsgang]

More glade construction days announced. Contact Peter Stein if you can join in on the fun! pstein@scisol.com

We have made significant progress with the new glade project. The attached roughly shows the area (in white) that is now skiable glades. Call it half way up to the tree island on Red Devil. This was done with two days with lots of people (order 14), plus another 3 days with 2-5 people. We are going to schedule 5 more days that people can show up and cut. Progress is all about the number of saws going. If folks show up, we should be able to have -- for this season -- a glade almost as long as Red Devil and accessible from the t-bar. Wouldn’t that be cool!!

So….

1. Weekend 1. Columbus Day weekend. 11-13 October (3 days available).
2. Weekend 2. The next weekend. 19-20 October (2 days available).
3. Please pass along this information to others you think may be interested, I have forgotten, or are not on the list.
4. Please do let me know when you will be showing up.
5. Please do let me know if it is your first time and you need to go through the training (no problem though).
6. At this point we will just meet at the trail head on Hudson Highway at 7:30 each morning. If you park up at the upper Rock Pond condos, near 13-15 Green Drake, it is short walk through the woods to the trail head. Remember, it is now a pretty good hike up to where we are cutting. So bring a back pack and supplies.

[salsgang]

Image of progress to date.

[SkitheLoaf]

That should be an awesome glade. I wish I had the availability to help, but I'm excited to hopefully test it out this winter!

[salsgang]

Volunteers and Jared / Mountain Crew made a big push over the weekend to get up to the Bee Wee pass. I am surprised the Mountain is not all over this from a PR perspective to try to generate some pre-season stoke. Pic below and more notes on my blog from the volunteer organizer. One more work day this weekend if you want to help.



http://www.maineskifamily.com/2014/10/saddleback-red-devil-glade-oct-15-update.html

[wigman]

Great news. I can remember poking around in there a few years ago. It was not very skiable back then. I dare you to allow for some long tight lines. Pucker factor is often overlooked when official glades are cut.

Thanks for doing this saddleback. I wasn't expecting much this season.

[b632]

They are doing some big snow making upgrades and power upgrades too. Real comitment by the mtn.

[salsgang]

First quotes from people who skied 'Wolly Bugger' and a cell phone picture on the blog. Hope to get in there this weekend and give it a full write up with photo's and video.

http://www.maineskifamily.com/2014/12/New-Saddleback-Glade-Wolly-Bugger.html

When we were helping cut this glade I was thinking we would not get in here until mid-January at the earliest. What an early season we are having as SL and SB.