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Both Friday and Saturday nights, Tannersville’s two prime dance clubs-Tanner’s Tool & Die and Slopes-rock well into the morning, as does the Hunter Village Inn in Hunter. The crowds seem a little older, and more families are making the weekend trek to Hunter rather than face five-hour drives to Vermont.īut the area still has glittering pockets of debauchery. The place has calmed down a lot-the partying is not nearly as long or as loud as it once was. Share houses were snapped up by city-dwelling Baby Boomers who poured in on Friday nights for a frosty replication of the steamy summer scene at the Jersey shore. Throughout the Eighties and into the early Nineties, Hunter had a devilish reputation as a destination for one long 48-hour party. If it’s still football season and you missed the office pool, you may be able to join the Larkins group. Larkins’ large U-shaped bar dominates the center of the restaurant, with two TVs usually showing the evening’s marquee sporting event. Don’t be shy about stopping by his table and saying hello. You’ll find one of Hunter’s owners, Orville Slutzky, holding court at Larkins a couple of nights a week. Owners Pete Larkin and Jimmy Selkirk always know the latest gossip, and are more than willing to share it. Whether you want a late-night brew or a charbroiled steak dinner, a Friday evening arrival means a stop at PJ Larkins in Tannersville. Type A Manhattanites, Brooklynites and Long Islanders routinely try to the beat the under/over Hunter time-“Made it in less than 2 hours”-but those with a dose of reality, sanity and safety allot 2 1/2 or even 3 hours for a Friday afternoon rush-hour departure. While other resorts might offer better amenities, Hunter does it best for pure skiing close to New York City-with 1,600 feet of often gnarly vertical, it’s no Berkshire bump. The lure of close-to-home big-mountain skiing keeps skiers flocking there, especially on weekends. Skiing, however, is why most folks head to Hunter. Both Hunter and its sister lodging and entertainment base, Tannersville, lack the charm of the former and the commercial bustle of the latter. But the Hunter region will never be mistaken for Stowe, Vt., or North Conway, N.H. And, with the right conditions, Hunter can turn a rain-soaked or sloppy mountain into a winter wonderland overnight. The area keeps the snowguns pumping at every opportunity through most of the season. Though it may not be the “Snowmaking Capital of the World” that it calls itself, Hunter does a splendid job of both snowmaking and grooming. None has captured the New York spirit more than Hunter Mountain. While the Catskills’ summer tourist fortunes have sagged during the past two decades, its major ski areas continue to draw snow-hungry city dwellers in winter. Since the early days of the Industrial Revolution, when leisure time was an embryonic ideal, the Catskill Mountains have been a vacation haven for New York City’s working class.

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