Enjoy a scenic skyride on the state-of-the-art lift that takes you to the 3200 foot summit of Hunter Mountain’s skiable terrain. The surrounding community of Hunter Mountain offers a variety of winter activities as perfect substitutes to skiing and snowboarding. Skiing and snowboarding are only a few activities for guests to enjoy. With terrain for all skiers and snowboarders, including an expansive learning area for beginners, cruisers for intermediates, and steeps and bumps with 1600 feet of vertical for the seasoned pro, Hunter Mountain upholds it’s reputation as the Tri-State’s “big mountain feel.” In midtown Hunter, across the street from the Animal Crackers, stands the village library and the movie theater, where “The Other Side of the Mountain,” the Alpine version of “Love Story,” is playing.Located in the heart of the Great Northern Catskills, Hunter Mountain is New York’s four-season resort for families, couples, and get-away-seekers alike. “The big question I have about life‐after‐death,” says Vince, the day‐shift barman at O'Shea's, who looks nothing like Woody Allen, “is how far is it from midtown and how late does it stay open?” And philosophy, as only bartenders serve it. The hills are alive with the sound of music, from the Randy Newman songs on guitar that a group from Washington listens to by the fireplace at Scribner Hollow to the amplified blasts at the Animal Crackers disco, where a chorus line of postteen boppers start the weekend doing the “Walk” or the “Hustle,” with here and there a “Bump.” For the non skier, this is called excercise.Īnd there's clean air. It may cost $11 a day for the use of the ski lifts, but Scotch at $115 a shot is cheaper than it is in most Greenwich Village or East Side après‐ski establishments. Unlike its more glamorous competitors in the Alps, Hunter keeps its prices down. At 12:02 while a woman was proclaiming “the finest skiing weather of the year,” all 40 or so seats at the bar were occupied and the line for pendant‐ski drinks was almost as long as the line for the lift less than 100 yards away. The bar at the Hunter Mountain Ski Bowl, the resort's main base, opened at noon last Sunday. So, much of the “action” is at the bars, even during prime time. There are snowmobiles at $7 a half‐hour, hardly less expensive than the skiing. “Most of the kids who come up here don't come up for skiing or horseback riding. “This is a dude ranch,” explains the bartender in the Last Chance Saloon during the Bloody Mary happy hour (10‐11 A.M.). Some of it is even outdoors, like at the Hunter Mountain Resort Ranch down the road in Flames Falls. The lifts will be jammed, skiers will be falling over each other on the slopes, but for those who can't wait for the après‐ski activities to begin there is also avantski and pendant‐ski. Skiing conditions are generally listed as “excellent” now at Hunter, but thanks to the birthdays of two great nonskiers, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, this resort 1,600 feet above sea level (without the help of an elevator) is about to celebrate the biggest nonskiing weekend of the season. You promised this time we'd go to California.”) Teen‐age daughter to parents: “Why did we have to go skiing anyway? We went skiing last vacation. (Of course to some, it's also a Great Trap.
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