Any body know anything about Hunter???

[zyk]

Upper Crossover ready to open!

Well its something. Not the great old hold my beer and watch this snowmaking days but something anyway.

Weather has been tough. I'm NW of hunter at 1200 ft in a valley and it was over 40 today...

 

[Mum skier]

We are at Hunter right now, and honestly compared to the Vail disaster so far in NH, in actual fact Hunter does not suck! Got here, Christmas Eve about 1.00, could not check into hotel (splurge for Christmas on the Katerskill Mountain club) but cunning plan to drive there and “try” to check in, as they said we could just leave the car there. Got stuff on at car, walked out to slope (couldn’t quite ski the access slope, but short downhill walk). No lift line even for the 6-pack. Compared to Sunapee, so many runs open (okay its all relative....). Belt parkway, Hellgate, Minya Konga, K27, Cloud 9, Kennedy. Haven’t been to Hunter for years so the run to the new North lift was new for us. Looks like some of west side (way-out) is ready to open and groomed, so hoping for tomorrow. Some ice, but it’s Hunter so we expected it. Not as bad as Sunapee last weekend.

Amazed at the lack of lines and crowds. Hoping for another quiet day tomorrow.

Kids in pool and adults drinking beer. Happy Christmas.....

 

[Kingslug20]

See...Hunter doesnt suck..as so many think..
I had a great time there a few days ago with only a few runs open..but the guns going full blast...manmade powder day...

 

[IceEidolon]

The core trails with new fans and auto/flood system towers are the easy trails to run. It'll be interesting how the last 25% of trails open but Hunter had a core of automation and modernization when Peaks sold, and Vail's added to it (though there aren't as many compressors as there used to be).

 

[Kingslug20]

They tend to neglect the west side..

 

[andrec10]

They tend to neglect the west side..

We know....

 

[Kingslug20]

 

[RichT]

We are at Hunter right now, and honestly compared to the Vail disaster so far in NH, in actual fact Hunter does not suck! Got here, Christmas Eve about 1.00, could not check into hotel (splurge for Christmas on the Katerskill Mountain club) but cunning plan to drive there and “try” to check in, as they said we could just leave the car there. Got stuff on at car, walked out to slope (couldn’t quite ski the access slope, but short downhill walk). No lift line even for the 6-pack. Compared to Sunapee, so many runs open (okay its all relative....). Belt parkway, Hellgate, Minya Konga, K27, Cloud 9, Kennedy. Haven’t been to Hunter for years so the run to the new North lift was new for us. Looks like some of west side (way-out) is ready to open and groomed, so hoping for tomorrow. Some ice, but it’s Hunter so we expected it. Not as bad as Sunapee last weekend.

Amazed at the lack of lines and crowds. Hoping for another quiet day tomorrow.

Kids in pool and adults drinking beer. Happy Christmas.....

It'll be quiet...........with all the rain.

 

[JimG.]

See...Hunter doesnt suck..as so many think..
I had a great time there a few days ago with only a few runs open..but the guns going full blast...manmade powder day...

Hunter doesn't suck.

Vail sucks.

 

[Kingslug20]

Ex.....actly......

 

[RichT]

Hunter doesn't suck.

Vail sucks.

10000000% correct!

 

[Kingslug20]

I miss the days when the Slutskys owned it...
It was my kind of place...now...not so much..
Yet i still like going there when conditions are good..
Probably wont be there much now that ill be up north.

 

[Mum skier]

It'll be quiet...........with all the rain.

Yes today was absolutely deserted out there. Skied from about 11 to 3.30. Rain stopped for a couple hours over the middle of the day. So quiet they gave up on a couple of the slow lifts as they weren’t needed. So second year in a row we spent skiing in the rain on Christmas Day, but it was a great day, ski on every lift and quiet runs, with softer snow than yesterday.

The only thing I’d say sucked was they had no park features out at all. Would have been so easy to set up some small things on one of the lower runs.

The rain has destroyed some runs, Belt Parkway is barely passable in places. Glad we are done with our skiing, will not be much left for the busy Christmas to New Year week.

 

[da-bum]

We are at Hunter right now, and honestly compared to the Vail disaster so far in NH, in actual fact Hunter does not suck! Got here, Christmas Eve about 1.00, could not check into hotel (splurge for Christmas on the Katerskill Mountain club) but cunning plan to drive there and “try” to check in, as they said we could just leave the car there. Got stuff on at car, walked out to slope (couldn’t quite ski the access slope, but short downhill walk). No lift line even for the 6-pack. Compared to Sunapee, so many runs open (okay its all relative....). Belt parkway, Hellgate, Minya Konga, K27, Cloud 9, Kennedy. Haven’t been to Hunter for years so the run to the new North lift was new for us. Looks like some of west side (way-out) is ready to open and groomed, so hoping for tomorrow. Some ice, but it’s Hunter so we expected it. Not as bad as Sunapee last weekend.

Amazed at the lack of lines and crowds. Hoping for another quiet day tomorrow.

Kids in pool and adults drinking beer. Happy Christmas.....

I am amazed at the your decription of lack of crowds on friday. I was off from work the whole week and decided to ski 3 weekdays on that week. Looking at the weather, and the usual crowd that builds up on friday, especially one that butts up against a holiday week. I decided to do a M/Tu/Wed trip. They were blowing snow on the main mountain all day on monday, but tues and wed were sunny and just above snowmaking temp, so they were great days. But I didn't encounter any instance where the 6-pack had no lines. The only lift that had no lift line was the 6-pack on Hunter North (What I think of no lift-line is being able to ski right to the chair, which is how it use to be on the lifts at Hunter North and West, weekdays pre-pandemic). On Wed, the crowd was getting more crowded than Mon/Tue, with lots more family w/kids and snowboarder gangs. In fact, I was thinking of heading back on friday since staycation usually meaning someone wanting me to do chores, but thought the likelyhood of crowds and decided against it. Maybe it the forecast of rain on Sat that caused many people to not show up?

Also, EpicMix's lift wait time is useless. Maybe its the lack of users to crowdsource, but that should still give a short wait time instead of what I oberved to be 6-9min in the North 6-pack.

 

[catskillman]

Another tough season, tough snowmaking, no staff, confusion, etc.....

BUT - I am sure you are all happy Vail is adressing this important issue?

Hunter Mountain ski resorts suing over name and logo

The Hunter Mountain ski resort is suing a nearby lodge owner, contending in federal court...

www.timesunion.com

 

[Ski2LiveLive2Ski]

Valid and important suit to bring IMO, as trademark owners can lose rights to marks they don't enforce vigilantly.

 

[So Inclined]

Valid and important suit to bring IMO, as trademark owners can lose rights to marks they don't enforce vigilantly.

Yep. Not a lawyer here, but as far as I understand it, trademark owners are legally compelled to fight these things even if it makes them look super shitty (which it sometimes does, but I'm not sure that's really the case here.) That's how you get the likes of Dodge suing dinky rural high schools for using the Ram logo for their football teams and whatnot. I guess the middle ground, at least in cases like that, would be to charge a nominal rights fee? Less likely here though.

 

[PAabe]

Copyright in this country is so f'd up

 

[Ski2LiveLive2Ski]

Copyright in this country is so f'd up

Trademark

 

[catskillman]

There is a Hunter Mountain brewery, and beers with some version of the name. Are they going to go after them?

Hunter mountai is the name of the next mountain range that the skiing is not on at all by the way !!!