Any body know anything about Hunter???

[Newpylong]

How do you fix all of these issues? Speak. With. Your. Wallet. No Vail, No Epic, ever ever. There are alternatives and you won't miss it. What has happened at Vail owned Eastern mountains save Mount Snow and Stowe is borderline criminal.

 

[Kingslug20]

Bingo

 

[nycskier]

Vail sent me a customer satisfaction survey about my weekend trip to Hunter and I gave them a piece of my mind. Last weekend at Hunter was an absolute disgrace.

 

[catskillman]

I went today. Very cold, conditions overall pretty good. I did not go to the north side due to the temp, light and wind.

Pluses I did notice =
The volcano has been knocked down. Huge plus someone could have gotton hurt very badly.
The widended the bottom of Drop Off - remember how is was like a narrow half pipe leading into the parkway. Now it is much wider, and more than one person can actually fit in there.
Barstools are back in the bar. You have to wait in a line to get a drink on the one side still, which actaully may work for the better. I remember having to sqeuuxe through people at the bar, get the bartenders attention, reach over them with drinks...

Minus -
The cost of the food is outrageous for what it is. There were 3 employees standing benind the counter with nothing to do. Pizza place is not open. Wondering what happened to Carol!! She was a very hard worker. Hope she is not back outside in the waffle shack. She was treated real bad out there last season.
Masks are not being enforced. Wheather you agree with it or not, noone wants to get sick, and everyone should follow the rules. Plus wearning one in the bathroom does have it's benefits.
The ski shop has very little merchandise, other than logo wear.
Demo ski system has not been installed, and they have very few demos for when/if the system gets installed.

 

[RichT]

Vail sent me a customer satisfaction survey about my weekend trip to Hunter and I gave them a piece of my mind. Last weekend at Hunter was an absolute disgrace.

That means they , probably read the first sentence and then threw it away. You won't hear from them again. Ask me how I know? I did the same at the beginning of December.................got ghosted.

 

[RichT]

I went today. Very cold, conditions overall pretty good. I did not go to the north side due to the temp, light and wind.

Pluses I did notice =
The volcano has been knocked down. Huge plus someone could have gotton hurt very badly.
The widended the bottom of Drop Off - remember how is was like a narrow half pipe leading into the parkway. Now it is much wider, and more than one person can actually fit in there.
Barstools are back in the bar. You have to wait in a line to get a drink on the one side still, which actaully may work for the better. I remember having to sqeuuxe through people at the bar, get the bartenders attention, reach over them with drinks...

Minus -
The cost of the food is outrageous for what it is. There were 3 employees standing benind the counter with nothing to do. Pizza place is not open. Wondering what happened to Carol!! She was a very hard worker. Hope she is not back outside in the waffle shack. She was treated real bad out there last season.
Masks are not being enforced. Wheather you agree with it or not, noone wants to get sick, and everyone should follow the rules. Plus wearning one in the bathroom does have it's benefits.
The ski shop has very little merchandise, other than logo wear.
Demo ski system has not been installed, and they have very few demos for when/if the system gets installed.

Cup of soup............$11.50. Fuck them!

 

[catskillman]

That means they , probably read the first sentence and then threw it away. You won't hear from them again. Ask me how I know? I did the same at the beginning of December.................got ghosted.

and don't you love the inaccuracies of the questions? Asking about restaurants that have not been open in 2 seasons. Their on line trail report is never accurate. Has drop off as a terrain park, which also has not been one in 2 seasons, and is not as of today. And madbox, the expert run shows as closed and has been open almost all season....

 

[catskillman]

Cup of soup............$11.50. Fuck them!

salads were $11. And there was hardly anything to them, and they did not look crisp and fresh. Burgers are about $15 if I recall correctly, and they are wrapped up, cannot even see what you are buying. I could not believe it.

Friend bought 2 PBR's (16oz), $17

 

[So Inclined]

Minus -
The cost of the food is outrageous for what it is. There were 3 employees standing benind the counter with nothing to do. Pizza place is not open. Wondering what happened to Carol!! She was a very hard worker. Hope she is not back outside in the waffle shack. She was treated real bad out there last season.

Pizza place has been open on the weekends. If Carol is the woman I've seen there in years past, she's still there too.

But come on now, Hunter lodge food hasn't been anything other than very meh, very overpriced cafeteria fare as long as I've been going. It's not like any of this is a great big step backwards.

 

[da-bum]

On thursday, I saw that they started snowmaking on twilight. I guess they are very belatedly opening up some of the trails where they didn't even touch up until the last snow storm.

Also, the Zephyr shows as being running on the app. Is that a error? A running lift with no trails to come down to besides Way Out?

Overlook at the North is pretty much the only trail I ski after lunch (~2pm) since most of the front has been skied out. That is also when the sun starts appearing on those trails, except for the multiple rollers at the bottom of the headwall, which is always in the shade and invisible.

 

[raisingarizona]

How do you fix all of these issues? Speak. With. Your. Wallet. No Vail, No Epic, ever ever. There are alternatives and you won't miss it. What has happened at Vail owned Eastern mountains save Mount Snow and Stowe is borderline criminal.

No no no. Everything will turn around soon enough. The majority of skiers should definitely continue going with Epic.

 

[Kingslug20]

Go...somewhere...
Else.....

 

[catskillman]

Go...somewhere...
Else.....

definite push to maintain pass holders. Z did run today. Not needed, but it looks good.

Volcano is back on hellgate, but now there is a large hole there. Only marked by lollipop still. Patroller told us it is definitely a leak, but they have noone to fix it. I bet the EPA would be happy to do that, but that would cause so many other issues. Honestly, I have no idea how they could fix it with the ground frozen and the ice on top cause of the water leak. Crazy.....

 

[Kingslug20]

I get it that people loyal to Hunter and those with a financial stake in it..want to keep it alive...i would if i was still there...but Vail only responds to a hit to their wallet...

 

[da-bum]

On Thur, I was skiing down 7th Ave and planned on cutting over to Ike. I usually cut across broadway once I past the next to last fan tower that stretches down the middle. But on this run, the wind was blowing the snow coming out of the fans downhill so I thought I cut across one fan earlier with a big round turn. The snowmaking was making the visibility low between the towers, but I assumed terrain is just like a little lower down. Next thing I knew I was airborne in the midst of being very much on my edges, landed on my side and sliding all the way to the entrance of Ike (good thing it wasn't one of those days where the left side is just lumps of re-frozen ice). I hiked back to retrieve my ski and saw there was something like a 3 ft difference in height between the left and right side of the line between the fans, almost like a wall.

Aren't these basically the same trails where they overlap when going over with the groomers?

 

[JimG.]

Hunter isn't going anywhere. It's a cash cow.

 

[Kingslug20]

Well..its going....downhill at the moment.

 

[catskillman]

Hunter isn't going anywhere. It's a cash cow.

they no longer accept cash...lol

 

[Kingslug20]

So...its just a cow......udderly ridiculous

 

[180]

Yeah Hunter sucks...

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