Not just a description, photos taboot!
I've never even skied hunter. i've hiked it in the summer during a music festival, and as a kid, i had a trail map of it on my wall - basically memorized. hunter is about 3.5 hours away for me, at that point i just go a little farther and head up to MRG, or if it's been snowing really hard in the catskills, i just hit up plattekill. but hunter's still on my list, and if the mid week catches a storm, i'll do it. i love bushwhacking, and spend half my time just making up my own trails and exploring in between trails... amazing what you can find with google earth (and speaking of... use it for jackson hole, the resolution is so good there you can identify individual trees in the back side- i think that's because dick cheney's house is there, although he had it "removed" from sight)
Thanks for the great post, i'll check it out when the snow cover is good... thorns or not (just have to wear my beat up 90's jacket!). lol, about the people flaming you for giving up the secret stash. from the photos, that's about as obvious as it gets! now if you want to blow up anyone else's secret spot... ha ha, do tell. i don't mind cliffs, stupidly tight trees, or thorns if it leads to upstate NY freshies
