Hunter West Expansion - Is the future liftline skiable?

[Greg]

I was looking at a Terraserver image of the Hunter West area. It looks like the liftline for the future expansion has already been cut:

If the Catskills get the snow, is that strip at all skiable? Has anyone done it? dmc? JimG.?

 

[dmc]

It's all over grown... We'd need a few feet to ski it... It's been skied in the past..
But it hasn't been maintained...

 

[Greg]

It's all over grown... We'd need a few feet to ski it... It's been skied in the past..
But it hasn't been maintained...

Well, get out your DR Field and Brush Mower and clean it up!

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

What was the last new trail(s) at Hunter?
What year?

This will be easy for JimmyG and DMC.

 

[JimG.]

I was looking at a Terraserver image of the Hunter West area. It looks like the liftline for the future expansion has already been cut:

If the Catskills get the snow, is that strip at all skiable? Has anyone done it? dmc? JimG.?

What dmc said...lots of puckerbrush, especially the lower half. A little dangerous without alot of snow.

 

[Brettski]

What Ravine?

http://www.powderhound.org/

 

[dmc]

What Ravine?

http://www.powderhound.org/

The area adjacent to K27 was logged last summer.. rumours abound...

 

[dmc]

What was the last new trail(s) at Hunter?
What year?

This will be easy for JimmyG and DMC.

I think it was "Mad Box"

 

[JimG.]

I think it was "Mad Box"

That's what I was going to say; then I thought it might be "Drop In".

Then I thought it might be a trail over on Hunter 1 like "West Side Glide".

Then I realized I have no clue.

 

[Greg]

http://www.powderhound.org/

"PowderVision" rules it...! Good stuff.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

That's what I was going to say; then I thought it might be "Drop In".

Then I thought it might be a trail over on Hunter 1 like "West Side Glide".

Then I realized I have no clue.

I thought it was Jimmy Heuga Express.

I thought it was cut after the West Side. Am i way off, its tuff gettin old.

 

[JimG.]

I thought it was Jimmy Heuga Express.

I thought it was cut after the West Side. Am i way off, its tuff gettin old.

At least 2 of the 3 trails I mentioned, Drop In and Mad Box, were cut after Heuga.

 

[dmc]

At least 2 of the 3 trails I mentioned, Drop In and Mad Box, were cut after Heuga.

DropIn = Jeuaga

 

[JimG.]

DropIn = Jeuaga

I'm an idiot!

I'm thinking of Drop Off.

 

[Greg]

I'm an idiot!

I'm thinking of Drop Off.

And you call yourself a local... :roll:

 

[dmc]

I'm an idiot!

I'm thinking of Drop Off.

Been around a while too... Remember it was the first attempt at a terrain park about 10 or so years ago..

 

[JimG.]

Been around a while too... Remember it was the first attempt at a terrain park about 10 or so years ago..

I remember...but I also remember that it was cut not too long before they tried to make it a terrain park. Seems like a recent addition.

 

[MarkC]

What was the last new trail(s) at Hunter?
What year?
.

If you want to call it a trail KMC drive. It was cut last year.

 

[JimG.]

If you want to call it a trail KMC drive. It was cut last year.

We have a winner!

Yes indeed, as short and useless (unless you stay at the hotel) as it is, KMC is the newest trail at Hunter!

 

[millerm277]

It's all over grown... We'd need a few feet to ski it... It's been skied in the past..
But it hasn't been maintained...

I think I know why, look at the plan for Hunter....that cut doesn't fit into it, because they now have the new lift going off at an angle from the current base of Hunter West.

As far as skiing that cut goes, I know there is a website somewhere that exposes it and has pics of it and of people skiing it., but I can't remember the name of it.