Hunter,NY - Christmas Day

[TropicTundR]

12/25/11
Hunter Mountain New york
Sunny

A better option than Wyndham at the moment. Snow was velvety sticky and I loved it, some areas were wind swept. Only complaint was having Hunter West stop its lift close to closing time (I took Way Out as my last run). Some people were stuck on lift , while those on ground (50+) had to green bus shuttle out.

I did get a $20 discount for my next lift, lesson, etc. :beer:

Anyone on this forum one of those unfortunate ones stuck on the lift near closing time?
I heard it was going to take 2hrs to get it going again.

Did you get a FREE lift ticket?

 

[k123]

How come the new 2011-12 trail map still shows the old Z double chairlift in addition to the Zephyr Express? Is it still there or is that a mistake?

Edit: from Hunter's blog: "Z Lift will be used as a backup lift to provide extended capacity." Why couldn't they have used the Z lift to bring the people stuck on the west side back to the top?

 

[keyser soze]

Anybody know what the current conditions are? Expecting to go up tomorrow. TIA.

 

[andrec10]

Anybody know what the current conditions are? Expecting to go up tomorrow. TIA.

After an inch of rain tonight, I would wait till Thursday after a night of snowmaking!

 

[TropicTundR]

How come the new 2011-12 trail map still shows the old Z double chairlift in addition to the Zephyr Express? Is it still there or is that a mistake?

Edit: from Hunter's blog: "Z Lift will be used as a backup lift to provide extended capacity." Why couldn't they have used the Z lift to bring the people stuck on the west side back to the top?

Yeah, only ZExpress lift was running most of the day I think, Z was shut down all day, or probably since it was closing time.
It was kind of luckily weird as I did not see many people stuck on lift.

 

[TropicTundR]

After an inch of rain tonight, I would wait till Thursday after a night of snowmaking!

Wednesday: Like bottom of Iltalian Ices
Thursday: Like top of Italian Ices