Pocono Mountain Skiing

[lowangle al]

The trails are grass covered logging roads in the state game lands that border my house. The secret to skiing 3 inches of snow is wide skis and keeping them close to the fall line. We just got a dump of heavy windblown stuff that covered everything up and will make a good base.

[lowangle al]

[bornaginalpiner]

Nice pics, Al and Mt Jaegermeister is looking good, too.

Good snow is where you find it. Looks like you made that most of it.

[lowangle al]

Hey Jude, we have about 6 to 8 inches of heavy stiff snow with a dusting of dry fluff on top, so not too bad. Looking at the weather forecast it should hang around until the end of the week when we are expecting more.

[lowangle al]

Still skiing after the big rain/wind event. The base is rock hard with enough fresh on top to make for decent touring. The cold temps made for a good day for Swix special green kickwax.

[lowangle al]

As of yesterday I’ve got in over 55 miles. Good fun.

[lowangle al]

The skiing is over here until we get more snow. I had a good run, skiing 15 days out of a possible 17 days with skiable snow. I covered over 83 miles and climbed almost 7000’. Most days were pretty good with one being great and only one that was too firm for fun. I finished on a high note on soft springlike conditions.

I had the skinny skis out on my last day

Some turns we’re made

I actually had a destination for this ski.

I had to stop for some therapy. My foot was on fire with about 3 miles to go. It helped enough to get most of the way back relatively pain free.

[bauerb]

do you ever get up on top of Camelback mountain? they might hold a little more snow up there in Big Pocono park...and about 2/3's the way up the access road are at least 100 miles of game land trails....I created many public routes on Gaiagps...from 3 - 20 miles in length...I stopped keeping track after I had counted 100 miles of routes I created. back in these gamelands there are many trails and many, many intersections and zero trail signs. I ran them enough to learn the turns, but otherwise use the public routes I created .

just don't go to the place where I noted "Cliff"...because there is a cliff.

[wabene]

A treasure map, sweet! Is there a lot of public land in Pennsylvania?

[lowangle al]

Thanks for that info BB. I've skied the resort a few times but never hiked or skied in the bc there. I don't think they get more snow there, I'm skiing at around 2000'. That tower I skied to is 2265".

Wabene, there is a lot of public land in Pa. My house is inside of a 21000 acre game land that butts up to a state forest that is connected to other game lands.