Huntah sold to Peak Resorts

[catskillman]

This just in:
Have you heard the exciting news? Hunter Mountain is going to be a member of
the Peak Resorts family of resorts! What does
this mean for you as a Hunter Mountain season passholder? Reciprocal ticket
benefits, events, discounts and more at six additional ski & snowboard
destinations across the Northeast.

Peak Resorts is excited to
welcome Hunter Mountain to its portfolio of resorts. Now through December 18th,
all 2015-2016 Hunter Mountain season passes will be valid at Mount Snow every
day with the exception of Saturdays. Even if you have a Five or Six Day pass,
it will be valid at Mount Snow Sunday-Friday. After December 18th, all Hunter
Mountain season passholders will receive the discounted lift ticket benefits at
of the Fan Fare Card at Mount Snow & Jack
Frost/Big Boulder as well as the discount perks of the Vertical Value Card at Attitash, Wildcat & Crotched Mountains in New Hampshire!


To take advantage of these offers, all you need to do is bring your
2015-16 Hunter Mountain season pass to Guest Services at any of our new Peak
Resort sister resorts.

For additional details on this offer and all
reciprocal Peak Resort perks you are entitled to, please click here.

Cheers,
The Hunter
Mountain Team

 

[yeggous]

So they are punting the reciprocal pass issue until next year. Probably makes sense at this point.

I also noticed that details page was updated to stay that the reciprocal pass holder cards do not come loaded with a free ticket. This is contrary to what I was told at both the Mt Snow and AttiCat booths at the Boston ski expo. I'm going to have to get to the bottom of this.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I never ski Hunter anymore, but I think I'll hit it this year to see it one last time before they pump a lot of money into it. Prolly a Plattelikill / Hunter Saturday/Sunday.

 

[yeggous]

I never ski Hunter anymore, but I think I'll hit it this year to see it one last time before they pump a lot of money into it. Prolly a Plattelikill / Hunter Saturday/Sunday.

Pump in a lot of money? Peak Resorts? LOL

 

[ss20]

Pump in a lot of money? Peak Resorts? LOL

Best post in this thread... anyone who thinks Peaks will put money into Hunter is smoking something illicit.

 

[drjeff]

Pump in a lot of money? Peak Resorts? LOL

Compared to what Hunter has been reinvesting into the mountain the majority of the last few years, yup

 

[Funky_Catskills]

My band is playing the lodge on January 30th... Thinking it may be the last time..
Encouraging EVERYONE to come out and rage.. Show the new owners what the local scene has become and how it should be maintained...

 

[andrec10]

Compared to what Hunter has been reinvesting into the mountain the majority of the last few years, yup [/QUOTE
Having an extra 400k a year pumped into the place should be noticeable!

 

[180]

Hunter Sold. So much talk over all these years about this and now it’s a reality.I have skied here every weekend for 30 years.I own 2condos and was a volunteer for 16 years.I have 2 lifetime passes so what happens is of great importance, butchange is inevitable. Some of Hunters allure was the fact that the town has not changed, however, that won't work anymore. Seeing what Peak has done at other resorts gives me great hope.There is so much that could be done

• $6m EBITA is a lot of money that can be used to fund projects.
• Crowds, yes, but it will take a lot of people to make a liftline on the Westside that really impacts my day.
• Terrain expansion, plenty of opportunity to add glades and trails with right people with vision
• Snowmaking, they still need to replace hundreds of fan guns, so I hope they do.
• Grooming, can’t be much worse and I think we’ll see some new “mogul” area. At least we’ll have someone new to complain to.
• The Ravine, it was ruined with logging, so hopefully they will turn Dave’s Inferno into a real trail with Snowmaking
• The highlands, great potential up there for glades and advanced trails
• Water, right now it must be pumped up and overto the Westside. They have approval tobuild the Westside Pipeline. It must bebuilt to support snowmaking on the Westside, otherwise we’ll always havelimited possibilities over there. David said it was now too expensive. We’ll see what Peek thinks.
• Why was the hotel not included. Who owns the hotel? It’s owned by theshareholders or Hunter?
• The bathrooms , definitely at the summit
• Summit lodge has greatly improved the last few years and a little more investment with decking and windows would make it shine. Scotties Food is decent too!
• Base Lodge – so much criticism, I think the layout is great. The bar, BYOB if you have a problem. It’s the best place Iever hung out to let my kids go while I could have a few.
• Food, never thought it was bad, but I don’t eat there much anymore since I can ski home.
• Sushi bar – what other ski area has one, hope it stays. Nice and private space to hangout.
• Copper tree, good value
• My stashes, there are plenty of stashes and I hope to show more people how to get to them

my claim to fame below 1994 and 95

 

[deadheadskier]

Ha! My dad had that one piece back then. Classic

 

[180]

Ha! My dad had that one piece back then. Classic

I still do. Its my torchlight outfit now.

 

[deadheadskier]

Nice. You should rock it during the BMMC!!

 

[thetrailboss]

Hunter Sold. So much talk over all these years about this and now it’s a reality.I have skied here every weekend for 30 years.I own 2condos and was a volunteer for 16 years.I have 2 lifetime passes so what happens is of great importance, butchange is inevitable. Some of Hunters allure was the fact that the town has not changed, however, that won't work anymore. Seeing what Peak has done at other resorts gives me great hope.There is so much that could be done

• $6m EBITA is a lot of money that can be used to fund projects.
• Crowds, yes, but it will take a lot of people to make a liftline on the Westside that really impacts my day.
• Terrain expansion, plenty of opportunity to add glades and trails with right people with vision
• Snowmaking, they still need to replace hundreds of fan guns, so I hope they do.
• Grooming, can’t be much worse and I think we’ll see some new “mogul” area. At least we’ll have someone new to complain to.
• The Ravine, it was ruined with logging, so hopefully they will turn Dave’s Inferno into a real trail with Snowmaking
• The highlands, great potential up there for glades and advanced trails
• Water, right now it must be pumped up and overto the Westside. They have approval tobuild the Westside Pipeline. It must bebuilt to support snowmaking on the Westside, otherwise we’ll always havelimited possibilities over there. David said it was now too expensive. We’ll see what Peek thinks.
• Why was the hotel not included. Who owns the hotel? It’s owned by theshareholders or Hunter?
• The bathrooms , definitely at the summit
• Summit lodge has greatly improved the last few years and a little more investment with decking and windows would make it shine. Scotties Food is decent too!
• Base Lodge – so much criticism, I think the layout is great. The bar, BYOB if you have a problem. It’s the best place Iever hung out to let my kids go while I could have a few.
• Food, never thought it was bad, but I don’t eat there much anymore since I can ski home.
• Sushi bar – what other ski area has one, hope it stays. Nice and private space to hangout.
• Copper tree, good value
• My stashes, there are plenty of stashes and I hope to show more people how to get to them

my claim to fame below 1994 and 95

Nice!

 

[RichT]

I agree...........except Scotties food is MUCH better than decent!!

 

[ScottySkis]

I agree...........except Scotties food is MUCH better than decent!!

+@ 1/8it good delicious actually for ski snowboarding area and not because they named the place after me lol!!!

 

[catskillman]

Hunter Sold. So much talk over all these years about this and now it’s a reality.I have skied here every weekend for 30 years.I own 2condos and was a volunteer for 16 years.I have 2 lifetime passes so what happens is of great importance, butchange is inevitable. Some of Hunters allure was the fact that the town has not changed, however, that won't work anymore. Seeing what Peak has done at other resorts gives me great hope.There is so much that could be done

• $6m EBITA is a lot of money that can be used to fund projects.
• Crowds, yes, but it will take a lot of people to make a liftline on the Westside that really impacts my day.
• Terrain expansion, plenty of opportunity to add glades and trails with right people with vision
• Snowmaking, they still need to replace hundreds of fan guns, so I hope they do.
• Grooming, can’t be much worse and I think we’ll see some new “mogul” area. At least we’ll have someone new to complain to.
• The Ravine, it was ruined with logging, so hopefully they will turn Dave’s Inferno into a real trail with Snowmaking
• The highlands, great potential up there for glades and advanced trails
• Water, right now it must be pumped up and overto the Westside. They have approval tobuild the Westside Pipeline. It must bebuilt to support snowmaking on the Westside, otherwise we’ll always havelimited possibilities over there. David said it was now too expensive. We’ll see what Peek thinks.
• Why was the hotel not included. Who owns the hotel? It’s owned by theshareholders or Hunter?
• The bathrooms , definitely at the summit
• Summit lodge has greatly improved the last few years and a little more investment with decking and windows would make it shine. Scotties Food is decent too!
• Base Lodge – so much criticism, I think the layout is great. The bar, BYOB if you have a problem. It’s the best place Iever hung out to let my kids go while I could have a few.
• Food, never thought it was bad, but I don’t eat there much anymore since I can ski home.
• Sushi bar – what other ski area has one, hope it stays. Nice and private space to hangout.
• Copper tree, good value
• My stashes, there are plenty of stashes and I hope to show more people how to get to them

my claim to fame below 1994 and 95

Windham now has a sushi bar! The summit lodge is classic. The old skis and memorabilia is so interesting. I see all kinds of non skiers in there during the summer fascinated. Hope the leave RIP at the summit!!!

 

[Scruffy]

The summit lodge is classic. The old skis and memorabilia is so interesting.

I love the inside of the summit lodge, I wish they would do something with the bomb shelter look of the exterior. A nice stone facing would wonders. Shit, just give a couple of local masons a free pass to work on it during the summer in their spare time; free pass if they get a certain amount done, else a pro-rated discount.

 

[andrec10]

I love the inside of the summit lodge, I wish they would do something with the bomb shelter look of the exterior. A nice stone facing would wonders. Shit, just give a couple of local masons a free pass to work on it during the summer in their spare time; free pass if they get a certain amount done, else a pro-rated discount.

And new bathrooms!

 

[BenedictGomez]

Pump in a lot of money? Peak Resorts? LOL

A ~66% increase over Hunter's yearly expenditure represents "a lot" of money IMO.

Best post in this thread... anyone who thinks Peaks will put money into Hunter is smoking something illicit.

More like "most uninformed post" given what's now publicly available info.

 

[ss20]

A ~66% increase over Hunter's yearly expenditure represents "a lot" of money IMO.



More like "most uninformed post" given what's now publicly available info.

You will not see a new aerial lift for 5+ years. You will never see a new terrain pod. Lodges will be "refined" and improved but never will you see "tear it down and build a new one".

You will see more aggressive snowmaking, more ticket deals, better (but not necessarily more" grooming.