Hunter Conditions

when Hunter was into their “World Class snow” I was recruited to supervise a snowmaking shift as they wanted a real skier to be involved, (in those days we did whatever jobs we could at the mountain ) main thing was to make sure the snow was not wet and ready to be skied on as it was being applied, since they don’t have to focus on beginner terrain theirs absolutely no reason for them not to open before the 8th, it doesn’t matter when they chose the 8th what’s important is they will be able to have new paying customers to make money off, rather then being loyal to the tons of passes already sold.
When Hunter was in charge of filling the streets of Albany with snow for City Ski they asked me to go there and take a couple instructors to teach the intercity kids to ski, we pushed the kids back uphill bye skating on our skies and using our polls set behind their bindings to push the kids back uphill for more runs
stay safe have fun!
 
I remember them doing that in Albany when I was a kid. I assumed they filled dump trucks with snow at the mountain. Is that correct?
 
Since their was plenty of natural snow as well when we were done helping the kids ski we did some downtown “ off-piste” , hiked up to the capital skied the steps , one guy did some crazy stuff off the side of parking garages
 
What I remember is that one year they made snow on the capital steps, one or two other years it was State St only. It seems like too much area to cover just by trucks.
One year thry set up a slalom course and Billy Kidd was there.

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Camera shows conditions in the lowest altitude highest traffic area look much better there then they were when I skied there on Black Friday - making it odd that they won't allow skiing today.
 
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Hunter with a nice recovery
 
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