AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 2019 - 72

It's

Sugarloaf Regional Airport (B21)
Carrabassett, Maine
Runway 17/35: 2,800 feet
by 75 feet
Elevation: 885 feet

72 | AOPA PILOT March 2019

Benedict to Fahy: Couldn't get a visual
on airport when 8 miles out, diverting to
Norridgewock. Snow squalls?
Fahy: Roger. Maybe we'll keep an eye
on it for a few and see if this snow shower
moves out?
B e n e d i c t : S u re , w i l l l a n d i n
Norridgewock and see. Squalls to Rangeley
from here but may clear.
Fahy: OK, that doesn't sound too good.
SKI MECCA

With three rocking chairs facing the runway
from between two vintage trainers, Fahy's
open-front hangar at Sugarloaf Regional
Airport (B21) has the homey atmosphere of
a front porch. Today, however, a mountain
of plowed snow obscures the view. No one's
flying, anyway, as photographer Bob Knill
and I fidget on the frigid ramp with Fahy
and his wife, Stephanie, waiting for word
from Benedict. We're here to learn about
the airport, and to tag along on a ski trek
to Stratton Brook Hut, the newest of Maine
Huts and Trails' four ecolodges. If conditions are right, you can cross-country ski
there from the airplane.

ILLUSTRATION: LAURA BARNARD

12 degrees Fahrenheit and breezy
at Maine's Sugarloaf Regional
Airport. Three nor'easters in
the past two weeks have dumped
several feet of snow on the Carrabassett Valley, and hotels
at nearby Sugarloaf Mountain Resort are fully booked. Two
snowmobilers stop on the field to fill up with mogas as others zip along trails beyond the trees. Conditions are great
for winter recreation-but not ideal for flying.
"Flying in the winter can be really, really amazing if you
get the good weather," says flight instructor Sawyer Fahy as
he scans the mountains in the area
where he grew up. Little Bigelow
Mountain is barely visible a few
miles to the north, although Fahy
thinks the skies may clear soon.
Twenty-seven nautical miles
to the southeast at Central Maine
Airport of Norridgewock, Lincoln
Prevailing winds out Benedict is checking the same
of the northwest view on the Sugarloaf webcam.
High terrain north, east, He's been consulting with Fahy
and west of airport by text message since well before
sunrise. Howling winds overnight
had become manageable by morning, so Benedict set out
from Brunswick Executive Airport with his wife, Jessica
Marion, with Norridgewock in mind as an alternate.



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