Northeast Local(?) Ski Options

I always thought Hunter should move forward with its Hunter West proposal - another lift out there to a higher top elevation.

At 1400-1600 vertical feet for its main lifts, and a potential Hunter West lift up to a new high elevation of 3500 vs 3200, you have greater vertical lifts than most of Southern Vermont areas: Mt Snow (barely 1600ft on one lift), Stratton (only gondola does 2000ft, other 1000-1500ft) and Okemo (1600ft on one lift). Even Killington - outside of its larger Gondola - only has a max 1600 vertical on K1 and is mostly under 1400-1500 ft in all other sectors.

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I guess Hunter One is now Hunter East.

I assume it would be a decent place to ski fresh snow since it is poorly lift-served and lots of trails are just left au natural.
 
There were no lifts running there that day, which made our climb a little longer. Great to get an untracked last run.
 
ChrisC said:
If OpenSnow calculates % Open via trail counts, Hunter will always come up short since a lot of terrain is not a priority to ever open.
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In season I'd prefer to collect data by acreage open, but in the Northeast that info is rarely reported so I nearly always have to use trail count.
ChrisC said:
It's a bit weird/short-sighted by Hunter Mt, but it's been going on forever any marketeer would just get rid of trails/lifts that never open
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What's really weird and short sighted is that Hunter One is sliced and diced into 11 named trails while Hunter West, probably twice the acreage and well over twice the vertical, has 5 named trails. If Hunter One were redefined appropriately to 4 trails, percent of area open would be more realistic and would be quite close to Snow Summit's:
Hunter 50 vs 57 trails​
Average​
Median​
75th percentile​
25th percentile​
1-Dec​
18%​
19%​
24%​
8%​
15-Dec​
56%​
66%​
74%​
33%​
1-Jan​
75%​
76%​
93%​
60%​
15-Jan​
82%​
87%​
90%​
74%​
1-Feb​
92%​
90%​
96%​
85%​
15-Feb​
93%​
91%​
99%​
86%​
1-Mar​
89%​
88%​
95%​
80%​
15-Mar​
88%​
89%​
96%​
82%​
1-Apr​
67%​
76%​
81%​
63%​
10-Apr​
30%​
19%​
60%​
0%​
 
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ChrisC said:
Hunter West is almost no different from Jiminy Peak: Both have big, Wide, Steep, and Open slopes built for snowmaking.
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Jiminy's black runs by Google Earth are similarly pitched to Superstar and Hunter West but are 900 vertical vs. 1,300.
 
Harvey said:
There were no lifts running there that day, which made our climb a little longer. Great to get an untracked last run.
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I always thought Belleayre's terrain on its west side/skier's right went highly underutilized pre-gondola and quad chair. You could just traverse out rather easily after new snow.

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