Went for Day 1 of our Peak Discovery pass. This wi...

Went for Day 1 of our Peak Discovery pass. This will be an ugly review, but in the end it was a nice day. I'm deducting 2 stars because of the rental and lesson experience.

The first thing I discovered was how terrible of a system Hunter uses for distributing rental equipment, specifically skis. There isn't a legit queue, or stanchions being used for an organized line, it's a free for all. Then after about 20-25 mins we got our skis, only have to stand on another 10 minute line to checkout with said rental equipment. Not a fun way to begin discover skiing.

Then came our Day 1 lesson, for privacy reasons I won't name our instructor, but he was 15. The poor kid was doing his 3rd class of the day and was very frazzled to say the least at our 16 person group. I understand it's a group class, but I was hoping for some individual critique and at least have the instructor give me some individual feedback, but I think our instructor was just fried from his long day, considering that's all he kept talking about.

We eventually made our way to the bunny hill, where the lesson took an unfortunate turn. Because our group was too large for our novice instructor, it took us about 80 out of the 90 mins scheduled to get to this point, we were clearly behind schedule (not my fault). Finally, we're online for the magic carpet and our instructor says, "Well guys, it's been a lot of fun, but I was supposed to be done today at 2pm and even though it's 220 and our lesson isn't over, I gotta go." He then promptly ski's away. Thanks bud. So then that leaves my GF and I to ride the carpet for the 1st time and ski the bunny slopes for the first time just us, luckily we survived.

So what did I learn on day 1 of peak discovery? Skiing is awesome but learn fast and get your own equipment so you don't have to give your time, money and soul to those rental lines. Thanks! I guess?