Hunter: Not Good, It's January

[SayvilleSteve]

There is usually a 2-3 day window most winters when Annapurna is open. Westway is completely overgrown, but you can venture over to at least the lower half if there is enough natural. Clair's is typically open for a chunk of the season (just not yet this year).

 

[jasonwx]

Some time ago, a user on this forum excoriated me for comparing Hunter unfavorably to Belleayre and Windham. Their point was that the West Side at Hunter was far better than anything else at the other two. I was planning on heading over there some time this month and checking it out. But from what I'm seeing here, even with natural snow those slopes aren't generally open.

.Clair's is usually opened..but imo the longest tiled ice rink in the world..

 

[Zykamps]

There was a time not that many years ago and not in a galaxy far far away... Z lift ran, snow was made, and you could lap the west side until your legs stopped working. HSQ, maybe 1300 or so vertical? Steep, not much of a run in or run out. Good times.

 

[x10003q]

There was a time not that many years ago and not in a galaxy far far away... Z lift ran, snow was made, and you could lap the west side until your legs stopped working. HSQ, maybe 1300 or so vertical? Steep, not much of a run in or run out. Good times.

Z lift double over the tilted ice rink known as Clairs for the win.
The Zephyr Express HSQ was installed at West in 2011. It is 3800ft in length and 1295 vertical feet with a 2400/hr capacity.

 

[SayvilleSteve]

HSQ, maybe 1300 or so vertical? Steep, not much of a run in or run out. Good times.

Now you can ski Hunter North. Half the vertical, twice the runout, same amount of ice.

 

[Zykamps]

Z lift double over the tilted ice rink known as Clairs for the win.
The Zephyr Express HSQ was installed at West in 2011. It is 3800ft in length and 1295 vertical feet with a 2400/hr capacity.

Well I was close on the vertical... Didn't the old y double run up over clairs right across the donut while the z double was closer to the zephyr line but started higher? I might have them backwards.

 

[x10003q]

Well I was close on the vertical... Didn't the old y double run up over clairs right across the donut while the z double was closer to the zephyr line but started higher? I might have them backwards.

The Zephyr roughly followed the Y line. The Z was over Clairs.

 

[raisingarizona]

The planning, design and construction of Hunter was sort of like Maud Lebowski’s painting.

 

[Zykamps]

The Zephyr roughly followed the Y line. The Z was ove

You're right I had them backwards

The Zephyr roughly followed the Y line. The Z was over Clairs.

 

[tirolski]

The planning, design and construction of Hunter was sort of like Maud Lebowski’s painting.

Fang darmers.
"Mr. Slutzky and his brother, Israel, a civil engineer known as Izzy, had been partners in a construction company when, in the late 1950s, they began bulldozing a ragged mountainside that a state engineering study had found unsuitable for skiing."

Orville Slutzky, a Founder of a Ski Resort, Dies at 96 - The Hunter Foundation, INC

Source: The New York Times By Paul Vitello Orville Slutzky, who with his brother founded the Hunter Mountain ski resort in upstate New York, known in the 1960s for its celebrity clientele and in the 1970s and ’80s for its unmatched number of snow-making cannons, died on April 18 in Hudson, N.Y...

hunterfoundation.org