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If you keep going on Eustis Ridge Rd past the picnic area it eventually bends around into open fields that have recently built homes and some lots. In many spots you can see the whole panorama from Bigelow to Saddleback unobstructed. I think one of the best views in the East. Unexpected because it's lower in elevation than the picnic area, but the picnic spot is gradually getting hemmed in by trees as the years go by.

We need to buy up some property on "Psuhoff Ridge" and start an AmWx snow colony. That Is the Place!

I have stabilicers, which are not as hard core as this. They make all the difference in the world and will literally save your ass. Getting to old to fall on the ice so 25 bucks and a few seconds to save broken bones works for me. https://stabil.implus.com/product/stabil-walk

Looks like they’re having a great season so far. Might be open well into spring.

New ownership. New high speed lift. https://www.saddlebackmaine.com/

If you haven’t been to Saddleback, it’s amazing. Obviously not as big as the ‘loaf, but big enough. Should be even better with the new lift.

Very few places in the east that can compete with Rangeley in the summer.

Interesting that you get summer relief as well. From the pics, it looks like you have rather open surroundings. How high above the town is your ridge? Just wondering which you feel is more beneficial in summer.

Not even much interest in the late night model runs, so even though I'm normally just a lurker I'll say thanks psuhoffman for the continued analysis and keeping hope alive.

Thanks for taking the time for a great write-up, as always. Somehow I remember a lot of suspense here in the wee hours of 2/10/10 waiting for the pressure to dive off the VA capes, which made me think it was the rare pure B that worked out. The specific reference to that one is a welcome clarification.

If you haven’t done it yet and if the air and roads are clear, take a drive up and to the end of Eustis Ridge Rd. For me, of the best views in all NE.

Cool, thanks!

Looking at their FB page, it seems like they deliver the fully assembled shell. Did that include the insulation? Can’t help being a bit nosy since we have considered something similar for our camp in Maine.

My $.02 - and worth no more than that - maybe a new Covid thread could be tried again, late in the year after the election and not in a regional subforum. At that point, hopefully, we could be faced with a unique situation in which multiple vaccines are pending and we all have decisions to make. Information and discussion might well prove invaluable.

Thanks! Checking out the Gazetteer, it looks like Coburn would present the right aspect, and I see what you mean about Kibby being more N. I've actually got a pic from Saddleback but I don't want to get so far afield from the thread topic.

Are these turbines actually near the summit of Kibby? I haven't been up around there yet, but from high spots in Rangeley/Carrabassett area you can see a prominent conical peak some distance to the NE that I thought might be Kibby, but I don't recall seeing turbines on it.

I'm mostly a lurker, but I will take this challenge. Back on EasternWX in those days, two of the most knowledgeable and most conservative posters, Don S and Usedtobe, were both quite firm all along that the warm early January pattern would be anomalous and we would return to cold and snow. Others may well have been in the same camp, but it was very unusual for both of them them to be so optimistically certain, so I actually emailed some "pro-snow" friends to say that the best minds were convinced that better times were coming. In certain situations, the good ones, and psu is certainly among them, can read the tea leaves well beyond 10 days.

Just grabbed this pic off the webcam for Bald Mtn Camps in Rangeley. Aurora or just a camera effect? Her's the link: https://www.rangeleymaine.com/rangeley/webcams

I've gotta give Dec. 09 some love, for the quality of the snow. Beautiful, almost "champagne powder" from start to finish. A breeze to shovel, or even use a leaf blower. This week was close, though.