Update From Hunter Mountain

I was looking at the extended forecast and it appears that some opportunities for snowmaking are coming up real soon. I assure you we are taking every opportunity we get and will crank out as much as we can in whatever window of snowmaking that we get.

The snow we do have has been tons of fun! Check out our video filmed last week. We brought in a good friend to take a couple of runs and show you what the Hunter snowmaking team has been up to since we've opened. You might have seen her face around here and there...



Just a quick heads up that the 3X Card deadline to purchase online is coming up soon. You have until the 24th to grab one online. Also, the Consumer Demo Day is next week, on the 27th, and the New Year's Eve Fireworks and Torchlight Parade is on the 31st.

If you will be at Hunter Mountain this week make sure you check out the spa at the Kaatskill Mountain Club. This week only, get a free aroma therapy upgrade when you purchase a signature massage. It's a great way to unwind after a day on the hill. Book your appointment today!

The Hunter Mountain Race Foundation will be holding thier Kiddie Karnival on December 27th in Colonel's Hall in the base lodge from 3:30-5:30pm with games and prizes. The 15th Annual Snowball will also take place on Saturday the 29th, from 7:00pm-12am at the Chateau Belleview in Tannersville. For tickets or for more info on these events click here.

Hunter Mountain Opening Day this Saturday!

The time has finally come! Hunter Mountain will be open this Saturday, Dec.1st, with top-to-bottom skiing and riding for advanced ability levels. Ticket prices will be adjusted accordingly...stay tuned for more details. Who's getting first chair?

Our snowmakers have been working at every opportunity to make this possible.  Check out this behind the scenes footage:



If you haven't purchased your Big Lift Card yet, what are you waiting for?! There are still a few days left to pick one up with the unrestricted lift ticket preloaded on it.  The deadline is November 30th, so if you haven't done so already purchase your 12/13 Big Lift Card today!

Big Lift Card Holders- please remember that your Big Lift Card discount cannot be combined with any other discounted lift ticket prices or offers.


I look forward to seeing everyone out here this weekend.

Closing Monday & Tuesday, Ways to Save on Wednesday!

Hello skiers and riders! It's a beautiful day here at Hunter Mountain!

Hunter Mountain will be closing due to the weather forecast for Monday and Tuesday 4/4 & 4/5. We will reopen Wednesday 4/6... with $25 lift tickets for the remainder of the season!! (All lift tickets will be $25... sorry, no discounts).

Value Passes will be valid during weekend operating hours, too! We are scheduled to close Sunday, April 10th... but if weather and business levels are good, we may change our minds…stay tuned!!

Pondskimming kicks off next weekend on April 9th... we hope to see you there!

This Requires Your Attention!

Ready? 8-14 inches of snow coming FRIDAY! We've got a winter storm watch from Accuweather, and we are gearing up for some serious late spring powder!

That said, we are moving Pondskimming to April 9. So put your wet suit away for another week, and get out your midwinter gear!!

We'll see you this weekend! Stay tuned for snow totals, photos, news and more!

This says 6-12 inches, but higher elevations such as Hunter might get 8-14 inches!

2/8 eBlast

We've got a lot coming up in terms of celebration and events here at Hunter! It's snowing (we've got 3" so far) and 30 degrees. We may receive another inch or two today before the sun comes out for the rest of the week and temps linger in the low 20s. Check the forecast here for what's to come!

We've got Valentine's Day coming up; there is a special menu available at VanWinkle's and dinner reservations are strongly recommended.. call 800-486-8376 x3011 to make a reservation. There are also spa specials: scroll down for more information on what's being exclusively offered for Valentine's Day at the Mountain Club Spa!

We've got a new video up on YouTube.com/huntermountain! Don't forget to like us on Facebook and a big congratulations to the winners of WDST Mountain Jam tickets!!

We hope to see you here this weekend! Don't forget that our Presidents' Week festivities, including fireworks and live music, kick off on Saturday, February 19... more info on that to come!

Lots and lots and lots more snow coming!! Head up now! + more :)

February comes with 18" of snow for Hunter... we've received 4-5" thus far and are expecting up 12" or more through today, tonight and tomorrow! Stay tuned with Accuweather, plus the Hunterblog, Facebook and HunterMtn.com for snow totals, news & info! The FDNY race kicked off today... the East Coast Firefighters Race has been postponed to March 8.

We're launching an incredible Superbowl Sunday special this week: we'll be selling a limited number of $45 lift tickets valid only on Sunday, February 6. Head over to eSki and get yours now! You must buy 48 hours or more in advance, and these tickets are ONLY VALID on February 6! No additional discounts available. Get yours now!

Ski Club Appreciation Day is Friday, February 4th! $25 lift tickets available in the Group Sales office for any ski club members. Valid membership ID required. Reservations appreciated, but not required! Contact Randy Hoose!

We've got a brand new weekend recap video up on YouTube and you had better believe we're filming this snowstorm! Don't forget to like us on Facebook... we've got contests, photos, videos, user/guest submissions and more all day every day!

On another note, congratulations to our weddings team, who recently were awarded a 2011 Bride's Choice Award on WeddingWire.com!

Change is good!

I'm changing some stuff and adding some features to the Hunterblog... so if there is some funky stuff going on, hold up! I'm working on it!

Thanks for another killer weekend... stay tuned for weather updates as more snow rolls in on Tuesday!

Winter Wonderland today: 10 inches of snow + sunshine!

I am elated to tell you all that THE SUN IS OUT today! We received 10 inches of super ultra uber fluffy snow last night... it's so light and fluffy, it is almost enjoyable to shovel! What could possibly make this better? Two things:

1. The sun is out! We were expecting a cloudy day today, and rightfully so after a snowstorm... nay, my friends, we have received sunshine! and...
2. Another storm is afoot. According to some forecasts we could get a foot or more of snow Tuesday into Wednesday. Of course, it is a bit too soon to be even remotely sure... but there is another storm heading our way.

That's all for this morning! Snow, sun and 27 degrees... perfect right? Tomorrow will be another awesome day here at Hunter Mountain. Stay tuned and we'll keep you informed about the next storm... be sure to sign up for powder alerts at HunterMtn.com!

eNews 12/21/10!

Hello from Hunter Mountain! We have truly hit the jackpot this season with fantastic start-up weather. Our snowguns are still cranking, putting more snow out on Clair's, Annapurna, Hunter One and others. The weekend looks to be absolutely fantastic weather-wise and we are excited to kick off the holiday week!

SNOWTUBING will be opening on Friday from 11am-5pm! It will be open on Saturday (Christmas Day) from 11am-7pm, and then 9am-9pm Sunday through Saturday of the holiday week. More info/pricing is available here!

In case you haven't heard, the Skyrider tour -- the longest and highest zipline & canopy tour in North America -- is now open and accepting reservations. There are some videos available and further information can be found on ziplinenewyork.com. The initial tours have been an enormous success... this is truly a once in a lifetime experience!

In other news, Dre has been hard at work on a new RideHunter.com -- take a look! Plus a video of last weekend's Never Summer Snowboards rail jam... enjoy!

We've got an awesome package available at the Kaatskill Mountain Club in cooperation with Ski Areas of New York -- SKI STAY FREE! Ski & stay for two days & nights, get the third day of skiing and night of lodging FREE! More info here!

WEEKEND PRICING & 30+ TRAILS, AMAZING SNOWMAKING & WEATHER!

Hello from Hunter... we hope you're looking forward to the weekend! We plan to have more than 30 trails open, including Hunter One, the terrain park and the West Side. Keep checking back at the Snow Report page as we'll have new trails opening as our Ski Patrol gives us the go-ahead!

Friday pricing has been posted on our Snow Report page as well, and this upcoming weekend pricing will be our typical *midweek* pricing:

Adult: $57

Young Adult: $50

Junior/Senior: $36

Toddler: $36

We hope you enjoy the incredible conditions and PERFECT weatherwe've been enjoying... we are moving our guns around as quickly as possible and our snowmakers are doing an unbelievable job! Be sure to thank them if you see them around!

This weekend we've got our Consumer Demo Days: so far we've gotAtomic, Dynastar, Arbor, Burton, Fischer, Never Summer, Head, Ride, K2, Salomon, Line, Nordica, Kastle, Rossignol & Salomon. Visit this page for more info on how Demo Days work, and how to demo equipment! A DJ will help finish out the day and start the evening at the Main Bar on Saturday, and we are expecting amazing weather.

Weekend Info (from eNews 12/7)

Hello from Hunter Mountain!

Thanks to those of you who have come out to enjoy our first few days! We had an incredible opening, complete with first chair pics and other photos. For the weekend, open trails will include Minya Konka, Lower Crossover, East Side Drive, Milky Way, & Eisenhower. We plan to run lifts B, C, GII, B, F, Kaatskill Flyer and Z. We may even run D-Lift! Hunter One will be open and ready!

We are also planning on opening the Terrain Park later in the week, so stay tuned at RideHunter.com for more info!

This weekend we've got our Consumer Demo Days: so far we've got Atomic, Dynastar, Arbor, Burton, Fischer, Never Summer, Head, Ride, K2, Salomon, Line, Nordica, Kastle, Rossignol & Salomon.  Visit this page for more info on how Demo Days work, and how to demo equipment! A DJ will help finish out the day and start the evening at the Main Bar on Saturday, and we are expecting amazing weather.

Snowguns Churning on Belt Parkway, Top to Bottom & Tomorrow's Opening!

Hello everyone and happy Saturday! We know many of you are waiting for our opening tomorrow morning!

We'd like to first answer a question we feel many of you may be wondering -- WHY NOT OPEN TODAY?

The answer: base depth. We are blowing a LOT of snow. And the deeper we can get the base on the first day, the longer it will stick around at the end of the season. We're thinking ahead in waiting an extra day to open our slopes to the many skis and boards... we want to lay down a strong, deep base to keep snow reliable and packed all season long.

The forecast for snowmaking, meanwhile, looks FANTASTIC. Mother Nature is compensating for making us wait and dumping a metric ton of rain on us last week! We've got long term snowmaking weather and some natural snow coming mid-next week! Stay tuned for an update on the spread-out plan from the snowmaking shop... we'll have lots of new photos coming soon, and we'll get Dre out on his board shortly.

Meanwhile, ticket prices for tomorrow through Tuesday are located here, and conditions reporting starts tonight! If you'd like to receive snow reports (daily or weekend) or powder alerts, sign up at HunterMtn.com!

Great weather coming up Saturday & Sunday!

Hello everyone!

We have some incredible weather coming up this weekend -- SPRING CONDITIONS! With highs in the 40's and sunshine both days, we're expecting PERFECT spring skiing & riding weather! Check out what NOAA has to say:

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 41. Northwest wind between 6 and 13 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 22. West wind between 7 and 9 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 42. West wind between 8 and 13 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.

YOWZA! Bring your sunglasses! I don't know about all of you, but we are TOTALLY ready for spring... and here she comes. Thanks again, Mother Nature! We've got some cool stuff happening this weekend, including the US Chefs Race on Sunday... hang around later on at the bar for live music, a DJ and more! Snowtubing is open, and it's a great weekend to slip n' slide on our snowtubing chutes!

We hope to see you -- have a fantastic weekend!

Sunday Update - Lifts, Trails, Parking, etc.

Good morning campers!

Yesterday, Greene County issued a state of emergency and decided to close some roads on us for periods of time... there were power outages on the West Side... etc. But we woke up today to clean, wet roads (no snow, no slush), no wind, and no more heavy snow!

So here's the deal for Sunday:
- there are quite a few people who are more or less camping out in our parking lot. Dudes, we can't plow if your cars are there! We're hoping that by tonight everyone will have moved out of the parking lot so the entire lot can be spic & span. Until people move their cars, though, we will experience issues with snow in between cars/crooked spaces/etc. If you're parking there and decided to leave it in the lot (or have left it for the past few days *cough* grey BMW in my spot *cough*).... please move soon!
- there is power back on the West Side/Z-Lift. We will have Z-Lift running today... we just may open it a bit later than usual, but according to our Chief Engineer, power is not an issue, and our lifts have all been dug out... so it looks like we're good to go.
- please use caution & personal responsibility when driving through the lot. As I said, due to cars that have remained there for days, we're doing the best we can to keep it clean. Be careful and park responsibly. Once our lots are full, please understand that's it for us -- this isn't like Mountain Jam. We have no backup lots, due to SO much snow everywhere.

All in all, we're expecting 48 trails and 8 lifts today. Some lifts may open a bit late for obvious reasons. The main mountain face is running fine... but 7 feet is a lot of snow, folks. We're still digging out, and we will be for awhile. We're doing the best we can to operate to the best of our ability; due to the weather, the snow, the trees with weight on branches, the roads, we need to cooperate with many other entities that usually do not play a part in our operations.

We're trying to coordinate efforts with the county so that what happened yesterday does not happen today -- incredible traffic to the resort prevented emergency vehicles from being able to get here, which resulted in a temporary road closure. It's no longer snowing, and today is a new day.

Have fun & enjoy the powder. Thanks for your patience.

WESTWAY - Trail 44 - TO OPEN TOMORROW

Well folks, it's that time of year. Or, that time of decade. Or whatever the word is for half a century (if I wanted to sound smart I guess I'd look it up)...

We're opening Westway (otherwise known as "Trail 44") tomorrow. Actually, we might open it today, to be honest. But it's 1:30, and the West Side just opened, so no guarantees. Tomorrow IS a guarantee, though... 44 will be open!! Mother Nature has given us 65" of snow so far, and now we're giving you Westway.

That's all I've got for now. Our snowcats are gr-- I mean, plowing-- the parking lots. It's snowing like crazy. Still. I would expect at least another few inches, but our power & our internet are holding up, and we've got stuff running today. We've got a lot of people who braved the drive to come up today... from what I've heard, there is 0 snow at the bottom of the mountain. That's how weird this storm has been.

We hope to see you this weekend! Tomorrow is going to be GREAT!

60" of snow in 3 days in the Eastern Catskills...

We woke up this morning to over 30" of new snow from Thursday's storm. The plows are working as hard as they can and snowbanks are 6+ feet high on the roadsides. The roads are in surprisingly good shape considering the insane amount of snow we've received.

We've received 60" of new snow in the last three days, and according to most weather stations & outlets we'll receive another 4-8" or more today into tomorrow. Saturday things should cool out, and we'll be back to normal. Well, sort of. How far back to normal can you go when you get 5 feet+ of snow in three days?!

As for lifts & trails, we're not sure what we're running today yet, but I will post that info ASAP. We have NO electrical or power problems today; our internet is running fine as well, so I'm expecting at least 5 lifts to run...expect a few delayed starts due to cleaning the snow off. Right now our main issue is how many people can make it into work safely and in a timely manner... we've been digging for days!

We've got groomed & ungroomed trails, as well. Most of the double diamonds will be left mostly ungroomed; 1/2 the diamond trails will be groomed, and the other half ungroomed. The Milky Glades will be open-- everything on the main face will be open, the West Side will open once we get Z-Lift going.

Snowtubing will not be opening today, as far as we can see.

Interweb returns / 30" this afternoon / Lift count for tomorrow

Aaaand we're back! That would be the Hunter Mountain interweb, which has been down all morning. So, here's the dilly. I made a sad attempt to snowshoe this morning, and ended up waist deep in powder. Not sure I would've gotten much farther with entire canoes on my feet. There is CRAZY snow, at least 3 feet, at the summit... if not more.

The Thursday storm seems to indicate the heaviest snow between 6am and 7pm (long time for heavy snow, huh?) We're slated to get 16-20". Keep in mind NOAA told us we'd get 4-8" last night, and we got 22". I can only imagine what their claimed 5-9" will bring us tomorrow!!

Some other blips of info:
1. Roads - the roads are awesome. Seriously. The county has taken amazing care of them, and I am impressed. I do drive a Subaru, but there are plenty people out and the roads were cleaned over and over all night last night... they will be in as good shape tomorrow.

2. Lifts - Lifts we plan to run for tomorrow (Thursday) are the Quad, B, C, GII, Z and Pony. Please be patient if they open a few moments late. There's a LOT of snow to clean out and we can only shovel so fast!!

3. Groomed/ungroomed - I took a ride up this morning, and I'll tell you that some of the areas do need some serious grooming. But the double diamonds have been left untouched, as well as at least 1/2 of our diamond trails. We know you guys love powder. We're just doing what we have to to make the unsafe areas safe.

4. If you think what we're telling you is a crazy propoganda ploy, I suggest you check our website, where I've uploaded a handful of new pics I took today into the flash roller. There's also a ton of info on Accuweather about what's going on, AND there's a new video en route to YouTube at youtube.com/huntermountain.

Quad down for maintenance Tuesday & Wednesday

Good morning! Just a quick note that the main quad (A-lift) will be down for maintenance today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday).

Stay tuned for newsletter info... it'll be posted later in the day, along with some new videos!

Tuesday eNewsletter!

Hello skiers and riders! We have had an amazing holiday week... thanks so much to all of you who shared in the winter fun here at Hunter! We've got a great weekend coming up -- actually, a string of great weekends -- and we hope you plan on joining us!

First, we've got not one but TWO (2) new videos -- one is our weekly wrap-up video, and we've got our first 09/10 terrain park video. New terrain park vids will be uploaded every other week, so keep an eye on our channel at YouTube.com/huntermountain!

It is ON at Hunter this weekend... our 50th Anniversary finale party kicks off on Saturday, after the groundbreaking for our new zipline project. The zipline groundbreaking starts at 2:30pm , followed by the Wall of Fame induction, followed by ESPN giveaways, bar promos, a DJ, live entertainment and Main Bar shenanigans. This includes fireworks!!

January is Learn A Snowsport Month! Bring your friends, family and take advantage of the great deals and incredible conditions this month! Here at Hunter, we have an entire Learning Center dedicated to enhancing the learning experience, with all of Hunter One providing some of the best learning terrain you'll ever find.

We've got on-demand first timers' group lessons on weekends and holidays (9am-2pm)... if you're renting, once you're set up, a staff member will greet you on the back deck, get you into a group, and off you go!

Here at Hunter, we've got one of the most streamlined, stress-free learning processess out there! Stop by and partake in a group lesson - you never have to worry about not getting into a lesson during busy times, and you don't need a reservation. Set yourself up to succeed right now, right here in our Learning Center!

We hope to see you this weekend as we celebrate the beginning of our 51st year open... and welcome New York Zipline Adventure Tours into the Hunter family. This is an exciting time for us and we hope you'll join us!