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Couple of recent developments: 3 good webcams are now available: https://www.saddlebackmaine.com/webcams/ Some of the Phase 1 units in the Parmachenee development built on-mountain are nearing completion. The A-Frames situated against the snow and mountain are quite a sharp look. Real estate...

They (Saddleback) have talked about adding them in the past but don't have the up to my knowledge.

A-Frames look pretty sweet and like Tipsdown I hear inbound interest is very strong. It seems to have a community vibe - there is a central common area with campfire pit. Will be interesting to see how it develops. Another cool thing Saddleback is doing in 2022 is converting some prime trailside...

Saddleback is almost.... Back! We will see how it all works out in the end business wise, but I am rooting for them. I posted a 2020-21 season preview of the mountain on my blog. http://www.maineskifamily.com/2020/11/saddleback-maine-2020-21-ski-season-preview.html

Hi - For Alpine-zoner's that live in and travel to Maine I have posted my annual Maine Ski Swap Guide on my blog. I pretty much try to list in one place information about all the ski swaps happening in Maine this fall and early winter. If you know of a swap I am missing feel free to DM me, post...

Thanks xhwhaler! You could see from the lift not too many tracks in the new East Bowl trails. There was so much good new terrain without the hike (that is required to that terrain) that we were happy to keep pounding it off the lift. I did talk to a local and they indicated the trails still have...

Date(s) Skied: December 30-31, 2016 Resort or Ski Area: Black Mountain of Maine Conditions: Powder / Packed Powder Trip Report: 100% Open - 100% Fun! We are Silver New England pass holders so we get to ski around Maine a bit during vacation weeks. We had a great two days at Black...

I am not one of the organizers (I just help spread the word) so this is a bit of a educated guess. The original plan was for the SMCR (the organization that is providing the memberships) to raise the $4mm via resort memberships (smaller money) and equity shares (bigger money) to enter a purchase...

Date(s) Skied: Dec 12, 2016 Resort or Ski Area: Sugarloaf Conditions: POWDER Trip Report: My youngest son took advantage of his new found closer proximity to Sugarloaf (He is a freshman at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine) and took advantage of no classes / Sugarloaf powder on Monday...

Of course - typed before my morning cup of Joe. They need to get to $4MM to enter purchase and sale with the Berry's (owners).

Peter Stein (lead organizer) sent out an email update yesterday. $400k memberships in Escrow. There is a donor(s) matching 1 to 1 first $600k so $1MM in the door. Still working through mechanics of taking credit cards. They expect to release more info on the operating business plan "soon"...

For Maine based Alpinezoner's - There is a presentation / Q&A from the Saddleback Mountain Foundation group at University of Maine - Farmington North Dining Hall at 5:30pm tonight (Monday, November 14).

Latest update from the community group / Peter Stein. Our fundraising is now underway!!! In case you have questions, we are planning informational meetings for Thursday, November 10th in Portland at Three Dollar Deweys at 6pm and in Farmington, on Monday November 14th location and time TBD...

An email went out announcing the start of the fundraising effort. Below is a pasted copy of it. It's going to be an interesting few weeks! Congratulations! Thanks to the generosity of people like you, we are delighted to let you know that we have reached an agreement to acquire the...

All good feedback and discussion. Posting of the preliminary membership form all intended to get the juices flowing and discussion going. Form is undergoing final review and edit as I understand it. Looking at the foundation website (http://www.skisaddlebackme.com/) it says 'under construction'...