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Wind Power Article
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A lot prettier than cell phone trees. Can we get power to the shelters now? An electric blanket would be rather nice or maybe a hot shower?
B+B
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#3
Not sure if you all read the ATC publication ATN (Appalachian Trail News), but the ATC vehemently opposes the erection of these towers on Reddington. It has been interesting reading the ATC position and the editorials of the readers who can’t believe the ATC would stand against renewable energy. These towers would be in plain view of the trail as hikers traverse saddleback. The ATC has to protect the corridor and development along it. From my understanding, Reddingon isn’t the ideal place to put the towers. Although the wind was howling at 40-50 when I hiked accross the section, apparently it only does that for about half the year making the wind tunnels mere pieces of art during the idle summer months. The ATC has been working hard to prevent them from going up, this article seems to show thet their efforts have failed. Disturbs me a little.
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Gadget, who live in NH, (visited last year), said something about “the ATC and how they couldn’t decide what to do; they were offered money from GM and said now, being opposed to fossil fuels or something, big bucks too and they didn’t want wind power but were offered money for that”. Boof in one hand and no money in the other. I don’t remember all the angles but it was a roundy round. We weren’t sure what their motivation is. Anyone?
Bushwhack
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I dont understand this issue. The views from Saddleback are already composed of ski resort trails. The pristine views are long gone. Windmills would be just more stuff to see.
bamboo bob
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Life is a compromise. We all want wilderness, but we all want our jet flights to Atlanta, and power for our computers. If it isn’t already a pristine wilderness right there, I’d say it might be a way to help PRESERVE the earth’s environment. Wind power = Good!
Colter
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#7
I think a more ugly view was right before the Shenendoah stretch. You pass a nice rock crack spring, up onto a nub and then you get to look back at a nasty clear cut for a ski resort…like you just walked around a mall parking lot. After, this was right before Paul Wolfe Shelter, the haunted one, a nice twenty you get to relfect on that scar. That’s messed up. But wind power is cool. I could sleep to the woomp woomp.
Bushwhack
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#8
Personally, I wouldn’t mind experiencing a night of sleeping out in the open in a wind mill field. Unfortunately, ATC hs caught a lot of flak by environmentalists due to their stance against wind power along the trail. Sure, it’s a much “greener” energy source, but the ATC can only worry about one thing; protection of the trail. But it’s a moot point as it seems that they have lost that battle.
Ganj
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#9
bill erwin had none of your concerns. he is blind. aesthetics weren’t a concern. quit yer bitchin.
Lone Wolf
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#10
The wind mills are proposed for Redington. Redington is about 1 mile bushwack due south of Crocker. Crocker is wooded, so there are no views from there. I don’t know if Redington is visible from Saddleback or not. It’s probably not even visible from Sugarloaf. Probably Crocker would shield them from being visible from Bigelows. I suspect that it will be visible from the section of trail between Sugarloaf and Carrabasett Road where there are views across the big cirque.
In any event, right now there are windmills on Searsburg Mountain in southern Vermont. They are visible in the distance from Stratton as I recall. Does that bother anyone?
Peaks
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#11
Yeah, I rememeber that spot. Had a geat warm afternoon lunch there. We were trying to place where they would go.
Bushwhack