I grew up in Hunter. The fact that Hunter is left out again does not surprise me. Its difficult for any of the individual Catskill resorts to compete with the larger resorts. After all the Catskill resorts are smaller then most major ski resorts. Thanks to NY State's forever wild laws, the Catskill resorts have half the acres (170-250) compared to VTs 500+ acre resorts. Taken together the four Catskill ski resorts compete very well with VT resorts. I would guess that there are easily well over 800,000 skier visits to Belleayre, Hunter, Plattekill, and Windham. This is not chump change. Add in the huge 2006 improvements to the four Catskills resorts will be (should be) noticed next year in various ski magazines. The Catskill resorts went from 2 high speed detachable lifts to 4 high speed detachable lifts for the 2006-2007 season. Then there is Hunter's awesome
Katterskill\'s Mountain Club lodge and Village of Hunter improvements. Taken together all theses improvements means if you have not skied the Catskills recently you may want to take another look.
Here is fairly well written article Feb 2006 article. As you can see it does not contain the latest Catskill ski resort improvements made this summer.
http://www.skinet.com/skinet/travel/...931922,00.html