New 40 Acre Glade at Saddleback

[riverc0il]

The more I think about that area, I highly suspect Saddleback will be cutting it over the course of a few years and its first year will probably debut sort of like the way the upper part of Deliverance at Jay is cut (and even a lot of the lower portion) with definite cut lines and not much room for improvision. I can not possibly imagine that even a quarter of that area would be skiable with only mild brush clearing. They are going to need to mow down a lot of trees and open up lines and I doubt they will have that entire 40 acre area skiable this season (or ever in its entirety). Which is not a slam. It is an ambitious project. But it is not going to be a full 40 acres of skiable terrain but rather 40 acres with a huge amount of skiable lines... which is still really cool.

Either that or it will just ski like Dark Wizard and almost no one will be able to ski it very well, LOL.

 

[Trekchick]

Oh man that's gonna be sick! That's a large patch of thick trees in there but once you get over the very top the snow lays in real deep in there I would imagine. I seriously want to fly back for a week one March just to ski Saddleback again. I hope it stays fairly mellow, they seem to keep adding terrain as skiers visits increase.

I have to remember to give you a shout when I'm in Colorado this winter.
I am sure we'll be heading out at least twice, maybe three times.

 

[Johnskiismore]

This looks/sounds pretty sweet!

 

[tipsdown]

The more I think about that area, I highly suspect Saddleback will be cutting it over the course of a few years and its first year will probably debut sort of like the way the upper part of Deliverance at Jay is cut (and even a lot of the lower portion) with definite cut lines and not much room for improvision. I can not possibly imagine that even a quarter of that area would be skiable with only mild brush clearing. They are going to need to mow down a lot of trees and open up lines and I doubt they will have that entire 40 acre area skiable this season (or ever in its entirety). Which is not a slam. It is an ambitious project. But it is not going to be a full 40 acres of skiable terrain but rather 40 acres with a huge amount of skiable lines... which is still really cool.

Either that or it will just ski like Dark Wizard and almost no one will be able to ski it very well, LOL.

I think you're probably right…I'm guessing that the project will consist of a few years of development before they have it just right. Like you said though, either way it's going to be awesome. BRING IT ON