Hunter's Wayout to become an Intermediate Trail

[BenedictGomez]

I wouldn't exactly classify Hunter or Windham as difficult.

 

[Funky_Catskills]

I wouldn't exactly classify Hunter or Windham as difficult.

Hunter is more "difficult" terrain than Windham

But - yeah... I've skied the Himalayas..
So... I only compare regionally..

 

[Scruffy]

I wouldn't exactly classify Hunter or Windham as difficult.

Nothing in North America is difficult, don't be daft. You want difficult, go to France. Lower K27 delivers 44.5* of icy moguls adrenaline rush, it's as good as it get in the NE lift served. Oh, but then you probably only skied the Belt the one time you were there, so...

 

[manhattanskier]

Nothing in North America is difficult, don't be daft. You want difficult, go to France. Lower K27 delivers 44.5* of icy moguls adrenaline rush, it's as good as it get in the NE lift served. Oh, but then you probably only skied the Belt the one time you were there, so...

You sound like the rich bad guy wearing the super expensive ski suit in every 1980s ski movie LOL


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[Not Sure]

Nothing in North America is difficult, don't be daft. You want difficult, go to France. Lower K27 delivers 44.5* of icy moguls adrenaline rush, it's as good as it get in the NE lift served. Oh, but then you probably only skied the Belt the one time you were there, so...

http://www.hillmap.com/m/ag1zfmhpbGxtYXAtaGRychULEghTYXZlZE1hcBiAgIDgu4D2CAw

It' seen a while but I remember this to be steepest section of Hunter, Difficult is in the eyes of the beholder .
95% of the people on this forum probably can handle everything lift served. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered difficult. Add ice and intermediate slope can be difficult.

I popped my left hand UCL on the bottom section of the West side years ago , planted a pole and wasn't able to pull it out , Crappy grip had a cap on top. It slid into my stomach and I did a flip and heard a pop. Bad pole design that trapped my thumb in the pole. It was an icy section that I was planning on straight lining after one last turn .

 

[manhattanskier]

http://www.hillmap.com/m/ag1zfmhpbGxtYXAtaGRychULEghTYXZlZE1hcBiAgIDgu4D2CAw

It' seen a while but I remember this to be steepest section of Hunter, Difficult is in the eyes of the beholder .
95% of the people on this forum probably can handle everything lift served. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered difficult. Add ice and intermediate slope can be difficult.

I popped my left hand UCL on the bottom section of the West side years ago , planted a pole and wasn't able to pull it out , Crappy grip had a cap on top. It slid into my stomach and I did a flip and heard a pop. Bad pole design that trapped my thumb in the pole. It was an icy section that I was planning on straight lining after one last turn .

Wow, I had stopped even attaching the strap because I had so many poles wrap around trees over the years. Good lesson for all of us, hope you are all good now.


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[BenedictGomez]

You sound like the rich bad guy wearing the super expensive ski suit in every 1980s ski movie LOL

Or an upset teenager that skies there 95% of the time. But I agree, there was a bit of James Bottomtooth in it.

 

[Not Sure]

Wow, I had stopped even attaching the strap because I had so many poles wrap around trees over the years. Good lesson for all of us, hope you are all good now.


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All healed up ,Happens St Patricks day 94 , kept dropping my pole ,though it was a bad sprain , went to ER following evening , orthopedic doct happened to be on . First words were when to want to have surgery . (&@"/;;!

They pop in the middle or pull a pice of bone . Mine piped in the middle so I didn't have to deal with a wire sticking out of my thumb for weeks.

I went back to using my old Scott breakaway grips from 1984 , keep moving them to new poles , I thought I was the only one that was doing this but when I skied with my cousin one day I looked over and laughed.
He's been doing the same thing .

 

[manhattanskier]

All healed up ,Happens St Patricks day 94 , kept dropping my pole ,though it was a bad sprain , went to ER following evening , orthopedic doct happened to be on . First words were when to want to have surgery . (&@"/;;!

They pop in the middle or pull a pice of bone . Mine piped in the middle so I didn't have to deal with a wire sticking out of my thumb for weeks.

I went back to using my old Scott breakaway grips from 1984 , keep moving them to new poles , I thought I was the only one that was doing this but when I skied with my cousin one day I looked over and laughed.
He's been doing the same thing .

Glad you are back, many of us are learning that simpler is better with these poles, if we have to hike up once in awhile to get a pole we lost...so be it.

 

[Scruffy]

Or an upset teenager that skies there 95% of the time. But I agree, there was a bit of James Bottomtooth in it.
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Not even close to 95%, but I'd be proud to say I did, if it were so, it's a good mountain. For the NE, I spend most of my time in VT, ME and the other ski areas of NY, WF, Gore, Platty.