My two cents on Hunter:
Timing and place okay, but if we are going to go through all the hassel of going, we want to maximize our skiing for the day. We leave early! Who ever needs to rent, do so elsewhere and just have the stuff ready when we get up there. All we want to do when we get there is get the lift tickets, maybe have some quick coffee and hit the slopes. We get in a couple of hours, which with those lines will be only a few runs, we stop somewhere on the mountian and grab lunch, and it will be amazing if we are all together since we are all at different ability levels. Then back to the slopes till about 3:30 - 4 and back to the cars. I am sure some will wrap it up about 2:30 - 3. We could plan a dinner on the way back. Get out of town and then stop somewhere.
Andrew