Mount Tone Ski Area
Lake Como, Pennsylvaniaby 1970 to 2004 (Sno-Hill to the mid-1970s or later, then Mount Tone)
Shop Mount Tone Ski Area tees, long sleeve tees, hoodies and crewnecks. The area ran on the grounds of Camp Lohikan in northern Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and began as Ski Sno-Hill, selling live-in skiing with lodgings named Sno-Drift, Sno-Flake and Sno-Ball. Its mascot was a snowman in a top hat and red scarf, out on skis. Later brochures advertised an $18 lift ticket. Pick a style below, and the full Mount Tone history is further down. Every shirt is printed to order in the USA and carries the memories of bygone places and teams.
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Mount Tone Ski Area History
Mount Tone Ski Area near Lake Como, Pennsylvania, was a small two-mountain ski area in northern Wayne County, a few miles from the New York line, that ran on the grounds of Camp Lohikan, a summer camp the Buynak family founded in 1957. It opened as Ski Sno-Hill, billed as a Lohikan Recreational Enterprise, and its brochures called it the Top of the Poconos.
Sno-Hill sold what it called live-in skiing. A 1970-71 rate card offered three-day ski holidays from $40 with meals, rentals, lift tickets and night skiing, and the lodging held about 250 people in slope-side bunk rooms, chalets and two inns. The lodging all carried Sno names: the Sno-Drift Lodge, the Sno-Flake Inn, and chalets called Sno-Ball, Sno-Cap, Sno-Cone and Sno-Drop. Skiers rode a T-bar and a rope tow to trails named Rifle Drive, Sunset Ridge, Hemlock Ledge, Lohikan Shift and Winding Way, and could also skate on a 53-acre lake, ride the toboggan run or rent snowmobiles. The mascot on its patch and brochures was a snowman in a top hat and red scarf, out on skis.
By 1985 the area was called Mount Tone. The old T-bar hill had become South Mountain, still with its original trail names, and across the road a triple chairlift and a double rope tow served North Mountain, where trails included Lakeview, Kinneyville and a narrow expert run called Shotgun. A short walk and a bridge linked the two sides. The area kept snowmaking and night skiing, added snowboarding and snow tubing, and was known for cheap tickets: an $18 lift ticket in its later brochures, with ten trails on roughly 450 feet of vertical.
Mount Tone closed its ski operation in 2004. The reasons were never clearly documented. The lifts were left standing for a time, and the grounds carried on as Camp Lohikan in the summer.